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स वासनात्मा विषयोपरक्तो गुणप्रवाहो विकृतः षोडशात्मा ।
बिभ्रत्पृथङ्नामभि रूपभेदम् अन्तर्बहिष्ट्वं च पुरैस्तनोति ॥ ५ ॥
 
sa vasanatma visayoparakto
guna-pravaho vikrtah sodasatma
bibhrat prthaṅ-namabhi rupa-bhedam
antar-bahistvam ca purais tanoti
sah-that; vasana-endowed with many desires; atma-the mind; visaya-uparaktah-attached to material happiness, sense gratification; guna-pravahah-driven by the force of either sattva-guna, rajo-guna or tamo-guna; vikrtah-transformed by lust and so on; sodasa-atma-the chief of the sixteen material elements (the five gross elements, the ten senses and the mind); bibhrat-wandering; prthak-namabhih-with separate names; rupa-bhedam-assuming different forms; antah-bahistvam-the quality of being first-class or last-class; ca-and; puraih-with different bodily forms; tanoti-manifests.