Markandeyapurana 45.59

45.59

guṇaṃ pūrvasya pūrvasya prāpnuvantyuttarottaram /
nānāvīryāḥ pṛthagbhūtāḥ saptaite saṃhatiṃ vinā //

Calm and terrible and crass[27] are their distinguishing marks; thereby they are known: they contain one another through their mutual interpenetration. Within the earth is contained all this[28] visible and invisible world firmly enclosed. And those distinguishing marks are perceptible by the organs of sense, and are recollected by reason of their permanency. They take each successive one the property of its preceding one. These seven principles when Uncombined are distinct and have various energies: they could not have created mankind, unless they had united. And meeting in mutual combination, they become mutually dependent; and when they all unite into one, they have the marks of a single complex body.