淨名經集解關中疏 1.128

1.128

目淨修廣如青蓮　此初四句此句歎形。肇曰。五情百體目最為長瞻顏而作故先歎目也。天竺有青蓮花。其葉修而廣。青白分明。有大人目相故以為喻也。

"His eyes are pure, long, and broad, like the blue lotus." This is the first of four lines; this line praises his physical form. Sengzhao says: "Among the five sense organs and the hundred parts of the body, the eyes are supreme. Because he composed this while gazing upon his countenance, he praised the eyes first. In India there is the blue lotus flower, whose petals are long and broad, distinct in blue and white; because it possesses the mark of the eyes of a great being, it was used as a metaphor."