Lu Yen-ping, who is studying Sanskrit, has discovered that in Brahmanism both men and women are described as having sharply contrasting black and white eyes and arms like a soft and open lotus flower.
修讀梵文的陸豔冰也在經典裡讀到，在婆羅門教，不分男女，都可能被形容為眼睛黑白分明、手足如盛開柔軟的蓮花。