Sāṃkhya Kārikā verse 42
puruṣārtha-hetukam idaṃ nimitta naimittika prasaṅgena | prakṛteḥ vibhutva yogat naṭavat vyavatiṣṭhate liṅgam ||
puruṣa - animating principle, self, consciousness, spirit; a person, man, a human being; peopleartha - purpose, aim; sense, meaning, notion; thing, objecthetu - cause, cause of; motive; reason foriḍā - comfort, libationnimitta - instrumental cause; a cause that concurs in, or is elevated to, the production of something more noble than itselfnaimittika - occasional, special, accidental; produced by any or by a particular cause; an effectprasaṅga - towards associationprakṛti - the original producer of the material world; nature or process of matter; nature, character, constitution, temper, dispositionvibhūti - special manifestation; super-natural; extra-ordinary, superhuman power (either perpetual or transient, consisting, according to some, of the following eight: aṇiman, laghiman, mahiman, prāpti, prākāmya, vaśitva, īśitva, kāmāvasāyitva)yoga - the act of yoking, joining, attaching, harnessing; a yoke, team, vehicle, conveyance; employment, use, application, performance; a means, expedient, device, way, manner, methodnaṭavat - acting as a; pretender; like an actorvyavatiṣṭhate - in different roles; appears in different roles; performsliṅga - manifest; sign; gender