🪷 ŚB 5.21.14

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Sanskrit

तस्मिन्नक्षे कृतमूलो द्वितीयोऽक्षस्तुर्यमानेन सम्मितस्तैलयन्त्राक्षवद् ध्रुवे कृतोपरिभाग: ॥ १४ ॥

Transliteration

tasminn akṣe kṛtamūlo dvitīyo ’kṣas turyamānena sammitas taila-yantrākṣavad dhruve kṛtopari-bhāgaḥ.

Synonyms

tasmin akṣe — in that axle; kṛta-mūlaḥ — whose base is fixed; dvitīyaḥ — a second; akṣaḥ — axle; turyamānena — by one fourth; sammitaḥ — measured; taila-yantra-akṣa-vat — like the axle of an oil-pressing machine; dhruve — to Dhruvaloka; kṛta — fixed; upari-bhāgaḥ — 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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