Markandeyapurana 45.33

45.33

dhruvamakṣayyamajaramameyaṃ nānyasaṃśrayam /
gandharūparasairhenaṃ śabdasparśavivarjitam //

Pradhāna is the cause, which is designated the Imperceptible, and which the great ṛṣis call the subtle, permanent Prakṛti, composed of good and evil. Brahmā at first existed certain, imperishable, undecaying, immeasurable, self-dependent, destitute of odour, form, and taste, devoid of sound and touch, without beginning or end, the origin of the universe, unchanged[7] by the power of the three qualities, not modern,[8] unknowable. Subsequent to the dissolution, all this universe was pervaded by him completely.