Desire is the fifteenth principle, O king, the whole universe. The sixteenth principle is Avidya or nescience. To it are attached the seventeenth and the eighteenth principles called Nature and Manifestation.
अथ पञ्चदशो राजन् गुणस्तत्रापरः स्मृतः। पृथक्कलासमूहस्य सामग्र्यं तदिहोच्यते॥ गुणस्त्वेवापरस्तत्र संघात इव षोडशः। प्रकृतिर्व्यक्तिरित्येतौ गुणौ यस्मिन् समाश्रितौ॥