May the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who enlivens the materially created bodies of the elements by lying down within the universe, and who in His puruṣa incarnation causes the living being to be subjected to the sixteen divisions of material modes which are his generator, be pleased to decorate my statements.
Srimad Bhagavata Purana
श्रीमद्भागवतमहापुराणम्
मूल श्लोकः
भूतैर्महद्भिर्य इमाः पुरो विभु- र्निर्माय शेते यदमूषु पूरुषः । भुङ्क्ते गुणान् षोडश षोडशात्मकः सोऽलङ्कृषीष्ट भगवान् वचांसि मे
bhūtairmahadbhirya imāḥ puro vibhu- rnirmāya śete yadamūṣu pūruṣaḥ | bhuṅkte guṇān ṣoḍaśa ṣoḍaśātmakaḥ so'laṅkṛṣīṣṭa bhagavān vacāṃsi me
SB 2.4.23