भूमिरापोऽनलो वायुः खं मनो बुद्धिरेव च | अहंकार इतीयं मे भिन्ना प्रकृतिरष्टधा
bhūmirāpo.analo vāyuḥ khaṃ mano buddhireva ca . ahaṃkāra itīyaṃ me bhinnā prakṛtiraṣṭadhā
我的原質（Prakriti）如此分為八種：地、水、火、風、空、心意、理智，以及我慢（Ahamkara）。
This Prakrti of Mine is divided eight-fold thus: earth, water, fire, air, space, mind, intellect and also egoism.
這八種原質（Prakriti）構成了低級原質（Apara Prakriti）。五種粗大元素是透過五重混合（Pancikarana）的過程，由坦瑪特拉（Tanmatras）或微細元素形成。坦瑪特拉（Tanmatras）是微細的根本元素。在此詩節中，地、水等代表形成五種粗大元素的微細或基本元素。心意在此代表其因——我慢（Ahamkara）；理智代表其因——摩訶（Mahat）；我慢（Ahamkara）代表未顯現（Avyaktam）或根本原質（MulaPrakriti），它與無明（Avidya）結合，並與各種潛在習氣（Vasanas）相連。由於我慢（Ahamkara，我執）是每個個體所有行為的根源，且我慢（Ahamkara）是人類最關鍵的原則，所有其他原理（Tattvas）都依賴於它，因此與我慢（Ahamkara）結合的未顯現（Avyaktam）在此處本身就被稱為我慢（Ahamkara），就像混有毒藥的食物本身被稱為毒藥一樣。
This eightfold Nature constitutes the inferior Nature or Apara Prakriti. The five gross elements are formed out of the Tanmatras or rootelements through the process of Pancikarana or fivefold mixing. Tanmatras are the subtle rootelements. In this verse? earth? water? etc.? represent the subtle or rudimentary elements out of which the five gross elements are formed.Mind stands here for its cause Ahamkara intellect for its cause the Mahat Ahamkara for the Avyaktam or the unmanifested (MulaPrakriti) united with Avidya which is conjoined with all kinds of Vasanas or latent tendencies. As Ahamkara (Iness) is the cause for all the actions of every individual and as Ahamkara is the most vital principle in man on which all the other Tattvas or principles depend? the Avyaktam combined with the Ahamkara is itself called here Ahamkara? just as food which is mixed with poison is itself called poison.