Skandapurana 2.9.27.3.2

2.9.27.3.2

With various colouring substances such as turmeric, saffron, and the like, / or with husked rice-grains, one should make the beautiful lotus and other designs there. / In the middle, the worshipper should make the pericarp of the lotus splendid with a golden colour, / and all around it, O sage, he should make the eight petals in the eight directions red, / or else golden in colour. / He should make the eastern gateway red, and the southern one black, / the western one yellow, and the northern one resembling crystal. / In the space between the city and the lotus having placed diverse flowers, / and having installed Śrī Kṛṣṇa in the middle, he should place Rādhikā on his left. / Then behind this Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa he should place Saṃkarṣaṇa, / four-armed, holding an umbrella, fair-limbed, and wearing blue garments. / To the right of the Lord he should place Pradyumna, wearing yellow garments, / four-armed, cloud-dark, standing and holding a fly-whisk. / And to the left of Hari he should place Aniruddha, wearing reddish-brown garments, / dark like a sapphire gem, standing and holding a fly-whisk. / All three of these should be made adorned with various ornaments, / with priceless gem-studded crowns, and enchanting with their youthfulness. / Then he should place the avatars of Hari on the eight filaments in order, / two on each one, thus indeed sixteen upon the eight: / he should install Vāmana and Buddha on the eastern filament in front, / both of them cloud-dark, compassionate, and observant of celibacy, / wearing white garments, holding an open lotus in the right hand / and the gesture of fearlessness in the left hand, peaceful, and wearing sacred threads; / then he should place Kalki and Paraśurāma in the south-east corner, / Kalki holding a sword in his hand there, and the other holding an axe in his hand; / both are to be made fair-skinned, red-eyed, with matted hair, wearing white garments, / wearing sacred threads, and with immense fury cast aside; / and he should install Hayagrīva and Varāha on the southern filament; / Hayagrīva should have the face of a horse, a human body, and four arms.