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11.39 A thousand times I bow Arjuna speaks

वायुर्यमोऽग्निर्वरुणः शशाङ्कः प्रजापतिस्त्वं प्रपितामहश्च
नमो नमस्तेऽस्तु सहस्रकृत्वः पुनश्च भूयोऽपि नमो नमस्ते

vāyur yamo ’gnir varuṇaḥ śhaśhāṅkaḥ
prajāpatis tvaṁ prapitāmahaśh cha
namo namas te ’stu sahasra-kṛitvaḥ
punaśh cha bhūyo ’pi namo namas te

You are the wind, death, fire, the waters, the moon, the lord of creatures, and the great-grandfather. I bow to you a thousand times, and again, and again I bow.

Explanation

Wind, death, fire, water, moon.

The lord of creatures, the great-grandfather — and then: I bow to you a thousand times, and again, and again I bow.

The repetition is not rhetorical filler. It is what someone does when they have run out of things to say and cannot stop, and the text lets it run.

Word by word

vāyuḥ
the god of wind
yamaḥ
the god of death
agniḥ
the god of fire
varuṇaḥ
the god of water
śhaśha-aṅkaḥ
the moon-God
prajāpatiḥ
Brahma
tvam
you
prapitāmahaḥ
the great-grandfather
cha
and
namaḥ
my salutations
namaḥ
my salutations
te
unto you
astu
let there be
sahasra-kṛitvaḥ
a thousand times
punaḥ cha
and again
bhūyaḥ
again
api
also
namaḥ
(offering) my salutations
namaḥ te
offering my salutations unto you