Or did Egyptian ideas about the creative powers of the water lily spread to India, where there were both lotuses and water lilies, and where subsequently figures sitting on lotus pedestals started to appear?
或是埃及睡蓮創生的想法傳進睡蓮、荷花俱生的印度，豐富了人們想像，印度神祇才開始盤坐荷花之上？