prakṛter mahāṃstato 'haṅkāras tasmādguṇaś ca ṣoḍaśakaḥ / tasmād api ṣoḍaśakāt pañcabhyaḥ pañcabhūtāni //
From prakṛti [emerges] mahat, from that [emerges] ahaṅkāra, and from that [emerge] the sixteen [elements]; from those sixteen, from the five [tanmātras emerge] the five elements.