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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.21.14
tasminn akshe kritamūlo dvitīyo 'kshas turyamānena sammitas taila-yantrākshavad dhruve kritopari-bhāgah
SYNONYMS
tasmin akshe — in that axle; krita-mūlah — whose base is fixed; dvitīyah — a second; akshah — axle; turyamānena — by one fourth; sammitah — measured; taila-yantra-aksha-vat — like the axle of an oil-pressing machine; dhruve — to Dhruvaloka; krita — fixed; upari-bhāgah — upper portion.
TRANSLATION
As in an oil-pressing machine, this first axle is attached to a second axle, which is one-fourth as long [3,937,500 yojanas, or 31,500,000 miles]. The upper end of this second axle is attached to Dhruvaloka by a rope of wind.
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His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Founder Ācārya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness