Manusmriti: The Laws of Manu

16. But, joining minute particles even of those six, which possess measureless power, with particles of himself, he created all beings. 

17. Because those six (kinds of) minute par tiles, which form the (creator's) frame, enter (a sri) these (creatures), therefore the wise call his frame sarira, (the body.)

18. That the great elements enter, together with their functions and the mind, through its minute parts the framer of all beings, the imperishable one. 

19. But from minute body (framing) particles of these seven very powerful Purushas springs this (world), the perishable from the imperishable. 

20. Among them each succeeding (element) acquires the quality of the preceding one, and whatever place (in the sequence) each of them occupies, even so many qualities it is declared to possess. 

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