Pratisarga-pravartana (How Re-Creation Proceeds) / पुनःसर्ग-प्रवर्तन
प्रवृत्तिकाले रजसाभिपन्नो महत्त्वभूतादिविशेषतां च / विशेषतां चेन्द्रियतां च याति गुणावसानौषधिभिर्मनुष्यः
pravṛttikāle rajasābhipanno mahattvabhūtādiviśeṣatāṃ ca / viśeṣatāṃ cendriyatāṃ ca yāti guṇāvasānauṣadhibhirmanuṣyaḥ
At the time of manifestation, a human being, overpowered by rajas, attains the differentiations of Mahat-tattva and of the elements and the rest; and from that differentiation he also reaches the state of the senses—through the ‘herbs’ that are the guṇas’ ripening to their end.