{
  "book_title": "Bhagavad-gītā As It Is",
  "chapter": 11,
  "verse": 39,
  "reference": "Bg 11.39",
  "devanagari": "वायुर्यमो ऽग्निर्वरुणः शशांकः प्रजापतिस्त्वं प्रपितामहश्च\nनमो नमस्ते ऽस्तु सहस्रकृत्वः पुनश्च भूयो ऽपि नमो नमस्ते",
  "transliteration": "vāyur yamo 'gnir varuṇaḥ śaśāṅkaḥ\nprajāpatis tvaṁ prapitāmahaś ca\nnamo namas te 'stu sahasra-kṛtvaḥ\npunaś ca bhūyo 'pi namo namas te",
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "vāyuḥ",
      "meanings": [
        "air"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "yamaḥ",
      "meanings": [
        "controller"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "agniḥ",
      "meanings": [
        "fire"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "varuṇaḥ",
      "meanings": [
        "water"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "śaśāṅkaḥ",
      "meanings": [
        "moon"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "prajāpatiḥ",
      "meanings": [
        "Brahmā"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "tvam",
      "meanings": [
        "You"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "prapitāmahaḥ",
      "meanings": [
        "grandfather"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "ca",
      "meanings": [
        "also"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "namaḥ",
      "meanings": [
        "offering respects"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "namaḥ te",
      "meanings": [
        "again I offer my respects unto You"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "astu",
      "meanings": [
        "are being"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "sahasra-kṛtvaḥ",
      "meanings": [
        "a thousand times"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "punaḥ ca",
      "meanings": [
        "and again"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "bhūyaḥ",
      "meanings": [
        "again"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "api",
      "meanings": [
        "also"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "namaḥ",
      "meanings": [
        "offer my respects"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "namaḥ te",
      "meanings": [
        "offering my respects unto You."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translation": "<b>You are air, fire, water, and You are the moon! You are the supreme controller and the grandfather. Thus I offer my respectful obeisances unto You a thousand times, and again and yet again!</b>",
  "purport": [
    "The Lord is addressed here as air because the air is the most important representation of all the demigods, being all-pervasive. Arjuna also addresses Kṛṣṇa as the grandfather because He is the father of Brahmā, the first living creature in the universe."
  ]
}