Skandapurana 2.9.27.3.1

2.9.27.3.1

.. śrīnārāyaṇa uvāca ..
khananokṣaṇalepādyaiḥ śodhite dharaṇītale ..
catuṣpādaṃ nyasetpīṭhaṃ nānāraṅgasuśobhite .. 1 ..
arcakaḥ prāṅmukhaḥ pīṭhapādānkoṇeṣu kārayet ..
caturṣu teṣu dharmādīnsthāpayetsiṃharūpiṇaḥ .. 2..
agnau dharmaṃ nyasecchvetaṃ jñānaṃ śoṇaṃ ca nairṛte ..
vāyau tu pītaṃ vairāgyaṃ śyāmamaiśvaryamaiśake ..3..
manodhīcittāhaṅkārānkramātpūrvādidikṣva'tha ..
vinyasetpīṭhagātreṣu haridraktasitāsitān .. 4 ..
sthāpyā raktasitaśyāmā rajaḥsattvatamoguṇāḥ ..
pīṭhasya paṭṭikāyāṃ tu trayopi munisattama.. .. 5 ..
antaḥkaraṇarūpeṣu gātreṣvatha caturṣvapi ..
vimalādyā nyasecchaktīrdvedve ekaikagātrake .. 6 ..
vimalotkarṣiṇīti dve gaurāṅgyau pūrvato nyaset ..
vādayantyau śubhāṃ vīṇāṃ haridvastre svalaṃkṛte .. 7 ..
jñānākriye nyasedyāmye pītavastre'ruṇadyutī ..
ekā tālaṃ vādayantī mṛdaṅgamaparā tathā .. 8 ..
yogāpraddhyau nyasetpaścācchyāme aruṇavāsasau ..
saheva muralī cobhe vādayantyau pṛthakpṛthak .. 9 ..
satyeśāne hemavarṇe uttarasyāṃ tato nyaset ..
śyāmāṃśuke vādayantyāvubhe te parivādinīm .. 2.9.27.10 ..
anugrahākhyā paṭṭikāyāṃ sthāpyaikā ca kṛtāñjaliḥ ..
sarvā etāstu kartavyā dvibhujāḥ suvibhūṣaṇāḥ .. 11 ..
pīṭhopari sitadvīpaṃ kurvīta śvetavāsasā ..
tanmadhye'ṣṭadalaṃ padmaṃ kurvītojvalakarṇikam .. 12 ..
dvādaśāṃśaṃ parityajya padmakṣetrasya bāhyataḥ ..
vṛttaistribhistasya madhyaṃ vibhajetsamabhāgataḥ .. 13 ..
tatrādyaṃ karṇikāsthānaṃ kesarāṇāṃ tu madhyamam ..
patrāṇāṃ tu tṛtīyaṃ syāddalāgrāṇi tu bāhyataḥ .. 14 ..
paritastasya ca puraṃ caturdvāraṃ prakalpayet ..

Śrī Nārāyaṇa said: / On the ground purified by digging, sprinkling, smearing, and the like, / and beautifully decorated with various colours, one should place a four-legged pedestal. / Facing east, the worshipper should arrange the legs of the pedestal at the corners. / Upon those four [legs] he should install the [principles], beginning with Dharma, in the form of lions: / he should place white Dharma in the south-east, and red Jñāna in the south-west; / yellow Vairāgya in the north-west, and black Aiśvarya in the north-east. / Then on the side-timbers of the pedestal, in the directions beginning with the east, in order, / he should place Manas, Dhī, Citta, and Ahaṅkāra, respectively green, red, white, and black. / The three qualities of Rajas, Sattva, and Tamas—red, white, and black—/ are to be installed, O best of sages, on the upper rim of the pedestal. / Then upon the four side-timbers in the form of the inner organs of mind, / he should place the śaktis beginning with Vimalā, two on each timber: / he should place two fair-limbed ones, Vimalā and Utkarṣiṇī, in the east, / playing a beautiful vīṇā, clad in green garments and well adorned; / he should place Jñānā and Kriyā in the south, clad in yellow garments and shining like dawn, / one playing cymbals and the other the mṛdaṅga drum; / he should place Yogā and Prahvī in the west, dark in complexion and wearing reddish-brown garments, / both playing flutes together, yet individually; / then he should place Satya and Īśānā in the north, gold-coloured, / clad in dark garments, both playing the parivādinī lute; / and one named Anugrahā, with folded hands, is to be placed upon the rim. / All of these [śaktis] should be made two-armed and adorned with fine ornaments. / Above the pedestal he should make a white island with a white cloth; / in the middle of it he should make an eight-petalled lotus with a radiant pericarp. / Leaving aside a twelfth portion beyond the field of the lotus, / he should divide its interior into equal parts with three circles: / the first [circle] there is the place of the pericarp; the middle one belongs to the filaments; / the third belongs to the petals, with the tips of the petals extending outward. / All around it he should construct a city with four gates.