Skandapurana 2.9.27.3.3

2.9.27.3.3

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,