Ādi-līlā, Chapter 5
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TRANSLATION
Māyā  has two varieties of existence. One is called  pradhāna  or  prakṛti . It supplies the ingredients of the material world.
PURPORT
Māyā , the external energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is divided into two parts.  Māyā  is the cause and the ingredient of the cosmic manifestation. As the cause of the cosmic manifestation she is known as  māyā , and as the agent supplying the ingredients of the cosmic manifestation she is known as  pradhāna . An explicit description of these divisions of external energy is given in  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  (11.24.1-4). Elsewhere in  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  (10.63.26) the ingredients and cause of the material cosmic manifestation are described as follows:
kālo daivaṁ karma jīvaḥ svabhāvo dravyaṁ kṣetraṁ prāṇa ātmā vikāraḥ tat-saṅghāto bīja-roha-pravāhas tvan-māyaiṣā tan-niṣedhaṁ prapadye
“O my Lord! Time, activity, providence and nature are four parts of the causal aspect [ māyā ] of the external energy. The conditioned vital force, the subtle material ingredients called the  dravya , and material nature (which is the field of activity where the false ego acts as the soul), as well as the eleven senses and five elements (earth, water, fire, air and ether), which are the sixteen ingredients of the body—these are the ingredient aspect of  māyā . The body is generated from activity, and activity is generated from the body, just as a tree is generated from a seed that is generated from a tree. This reciprocal cause and effect is called  māyā . My dear Lord, You can save me from this cycle of cause and effect. I worship Your lotus feet.”
Although the living entity is primarily related to the causal portion of  māyā , he is nevertheless conducted by the ingredients of  māyā . Three forces work in the causal portion of  māyā : knowledge, desire and activity. The material ingredients are a manifestation of  māyā  as  pradhāna . In other words, when the three qualities of  māyā  are in a dormant stage, they exist as  prakṛti ,  avyakta  or  pradhāna . The word  avyakta , referring to the nonmanifest, is another name of  pradhāna . In the  avyakta  stage, material nature is without varieties. Varieties are manifested by the  pradhāna  portion of  māyā . The word  pradhāna  is therefore more important than  avyakta  or  prakṛti .
TEXT 59
जगद्कारणं नहे शक्रुति जडुक्रणा ।
शक्ति सक्षारिया तारे कुक्क करे कृषा ॥ १० ॥
jagat-kāraṇa nahe prakṛti jaḍa-rūpā śakti sañcāriyā tāre kṛṣṇa kare kṛpā