One form was white and the other black. They had four arms and eyes resembling lotus petals. They wore garments of black deerskin and bark, along with the three-stranded sacred thread and had pavitras of kuśa on their hands. They carried the mendicant's waterpot, straight bamboo staff and lotus-seed prayer beads, as well as the all-purifying Vedas in the symbolic form of bundles of darbha grass. The tall figures, austerity personified, flashing with yellow rays like lightning, were being worshiped by the foremost devatās. They wore skin of the black deer and bark for clothing and a sacred thread of newly woven thread in three strands. They held water pots in their hands. They held the Vedas which purify men. Some say this means they held darbha, representing the Vedas. They were the personification of austerity. They were tall. Their yellow effulgence looked like flashing lightning.