Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.4.23
SB 2.4.23
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bhūtair mahadbhir ya imāḥ puro vibhur nirmāya śete yad amūṣu pūruṣaḥ bhuṅkte guṇān ṣoḍaśa ṣoḍaśātmakaḥ so 'laṅkṛṣīṣṭa bhagavān vacāṁsi me
Translation
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.