Skandapurana 2.9.27.3.3

2.9.27.3.3

śaṅkhādibhṛtsvarṇavarṇo dhṛtadivyasitāmbaraḥ ..
varāhastu varāhāsyo narāṃgaḥ syāccaturbhujaḥ .. 2.9.27.30 ..
śaṅkhacakragadābjāni dadhatpītāmbaraṃ tathā ..
madhupiṃgalavarṇaśca karttavyo dvibhujo'tha vā .. 31 ..
matsyakūrmmau nairṛte ca sthāpayetkesare tataḥ ..
kaṭeradhastadākārāvūrddhvaṃ tau tu narākṛtī .. 32 ..
vāme śaṃkhaṃ gadāṃ dakṣe pāṇau ca dadhatāvubhau ..
śyāmasundaradehau ca karttavyau dhṛtabhūṣaṇau .. 33 ..
dhanvantariṃ nṛsiṃhaṃ ca paścime kesare nyaset ..
dhanvantariḥ śuklavāsā gaurāṃgo'mṛtakumbhadhṛt .. 34 ..
siṃhavaktro nṛsiṃhastu nṛdehaḥ kesarānvitaḥ ..
nīlotpalābho dvibhujo gadācakradharo bhaveta .. 35 ..
vāyau nyasedubhau haṃsadattātreyau jaṭādharau ..
yogiveṣau sitau daṇḍakamaṇḍalukarau tathā .. 36 ..
uttare kesare vyāsaṃ nyasedgaṇapatiṃ tataḥ ..
tatra vyāso viśālākṣaḥ kṛṣṇavarṇaḥ sitāmbaraḥ .. 37 ..
dvibhujo dhṛtavedaśca supiśaṃgajaṭādharaḥ ..
sitayajñopavītaśca karttavyaḥ sapavitrakaḥ .. 38 ..
gajāsya ekadantaśca rakto gaṇapatirbhavet ..
raktāmbaradharaścaiva nāgayajñopavītavān .. 39 ..
tundilaśca caturbāhuḥ pāśāṅkuśavarāndadhat ..
kareṇaikena ca dadhadramyāṃ pustakalekhinīm .. 2.9.27.40 ..
nyasetkesara īśāne kapilaṃ pūjakastataḥ ..
sanatkumāraṃ ca muniṃ naiṣṭhikabrahmacāriṇam .. 41 ..
śuklāṃgaḥ kapilaḥ kāryo dhṛtacārusitāmbaraḥ ..
dadhatkarābhyāmambhojamabhayaṃ śāntavigraham .. 42 ..
pañcavārṣikabālābho digvastro'lpajaṭādharaḥ ..
sanatkumāraśca muniḥ karttavyaḥ pūjakena tu .. 43 ..
saṃsthāpya kesareṣvitthaṃ devatāḥ paṅkajasya tu ..

holding a conch and other attributes, golden-colored, wearing divine white garments. / Varāha, however, should have a boar's face, a human body, and four arms, / holding a conch, discus, mace, and lotus, and wearing yellow garments; / he may be honey-tawny in color, or else two-armed. / Then one should install Matsya and Kūrma in the southwest filament; / below the waist they have their [creature] forms, but above they have human shape, / both holding a conch in the left hand and a mace in the right, / with dark and beautiful bodies, adorned with ornaments. / One should place Dhanvantari and Nṛsiṃha in the western filament; / Dhanvantari wears white garments, is fair-limbed, and holds a pot of nectar. / Nṛsiṃha has a lion's face, a human body, and is endowed with a mane; / he has the hue of a blue lotus, is two-armed, and bears a mace and a discus. / In the northwest one should place both Haṃsa and Dattātreya wearing matted hair, / in the garb of yogins, white, holding a staff and water pot in their hands. / Then one should place Vyāsa and Gaṇapati in the northern filament; / there Vyāsa is large-eyed, dark in color, wearing white garments, / two-armed, holding the Vedas, possessing very reddish-brown matted locks, / wearing a white sacred thread, and equipped with a pavitra ring. / Gaṇapati should have an elephant's face, a single tusk, and be red, / wearing red garments, and possessing a serpent for a sacred thread, / pot-bellied and four-armed, holding a noose, goad, and the gesture of bestowing boons, / and with one hand holding a delightful book and writing pen. / Then the worshipper should place Kapila in the northeast filament, / and the sage Sanatkumāra, a lifelong celibate. / Kapila should be made fair-limbed, wearing charming white garments, / holding a lotus and the gesture of fearlessness with his two hands, with a peaceful form. / The sage Sanatkumāra should be made by the worshipper / resembling a five-year-old child, sky-clad, and bearing small matted locks. / Having thus established the deities in the filaments of the lotus,