Having first himself taken a body, he then created Pradhana. That Pradhana is the material cause of all embodied creatures, by whom is all this covered, and whom all came to know as the greatest.
ततः प्रधानमसृजत् प्रकृति स शरीरिणाम्। यया सर्वमिदं व्याप्तं यां लोके परमां विदुः॥