Three kinds of disposition, O king, have been created about all embodied creatures, viz., that which appertains to the quality of goodness, that which appertains to the quality of Darkness, and lastly that which appertains to the quality of Ignorance, O Bharata.
वैशम्पायन उवाच तिस्रः प्रकृतयो राजन् देहबन्धेषु निर्मिताः। सात्त्विकी राजसी चैव तामसी चैव भारत॥