Skanda Purana 7.18.89_234

7.18.89_234

959
tāsāṃ triṃśat sahasrāṇi vyānasrotasi5 saṃsthitāḥ .
udānasyāparā nāḍyo6 brahmamūrdhni pratiṣṭhitāḥ . .5. .
cakranābhī samāśritya7 bhūtasaṃghātamāsthitam .
tanmadhye tu guṇaspṛṣṭaḥ8 karmātmā bhūtamohanaḥ ..6. .
nakṣatrodyotasaṃkāśo jyotsnā puñjanibhaḥ prabhaḥ9 .
vighātajananonyeṣāṃ sūryāyutanibhaḥ10 sthitaḥ ..7. .
saṃbhūtognirivotpātī girinīhārasannibhaḥ .
guṇastho bhūtayonistu puruṣaḥ pañcaviṃśakaḥ ..8..

Thirty thousand of them are situated in the stream of vyāna;
other channels of udāna are established in the crown of the head. // 5
Relying on the hub of the circle, it is established within the aggregate of elements;
and in its center, touched by the guṇas, is the active self, deluder of beings, // 6
resembling the radiance of stars, possessing luster like a mass of moonlight,
causing obstacles to others, standing like ten thousand suns, // 7
arisen like portentous fire, resembling mountain mist,
abiding in the guṇas, the womb of beings—the twenty-fifth, the puruṣa. // 8