The demigods said: Let us offer our respectful obeisances unto the transcendental Personality of Godhead, who created as His external energy this cosmic manifestation, which is situated in Him as the air and clouds are situated in space, and who has now appeared in the form of Nara-Nārāyaṇa Ṛṣi in the house of Dharma.
Srimad Bhagavata Purana
श्रीमद्भागवतमहापुराणम्
मूल श्लोकः
देवा ऊचुः । यो मायया विरचितं निजयाऽऽत्मनीदं खे रूपभेदमिव तत्प्रतिचक्षणाय । एतेन धर्मसदने ऋषिमूर्तिनाद्य प्रादुश्चकार पुरुषाय नमः परस्मै
devā ūcuḥ | yo māyayā viracitaṃ nijayā''tmanīdaṃ khe rūpabhedamiva tatpraticakṣaṇāya | etena dharmasadane ṛṣimūrtinādya prāduścakāra puruṣāya namaḥ parasmai
SB 4.1.56