Visuddhimagga XI-100

Yathā ca yakkhinīsaṅkhātāni mahābhūtāni manāpehi vaṇṇasaṇṭhānavikkhepehi attano bhayānakabhāvaṃ paṭicchādetvā satte vañcenti,

又譬如称为夜叉女的大种，化为悦意的形色媚态，而盖覆其自己的恐怖的形相，迷惑有情；

Ñ(XI,100): And just as the great creatures known as female spirits (yakkhinī) conceal their own fearfulness with a pleasing colour; shape and gesture to deceive beings,

evameva etānipi itthipurisasarīrādīsu manāpena chavivaṇṇena manāpena attano aṅgapaccaṅgasaṇṭhānena manāpena ca hatthapādaṅgulibhamukavikkhepena attano kakkhaḷattādibhedaṃ sarasalakkhaṇaṃ paṭicchādetvā bālajanaṃ vañcenti,

此等（大种）亦然，于男女的身体，以悦意的肤色，以自己悦意的四肢五体和形相，用悦意的手指足趾及眉毛的媚态，覆盖自己的坚性等的自性之相，迷惑愚人，

Ñ: so too, these elements conceal each their own characteristic and function classed as hardness, etc., by means of a pleasing skin colour of women's and men's bodies, etc., and pleasing shapes of limbs and pleasing gestures of fingers, toes and eyebrows, and they deceive simple people by concealing their own functions and characteristics beginning with hardness

attano sabhāvaṃ daṭṭhuṃ na dentīti vañcakattena yakkhinīmahābhūtasāmaññatopi mahābhūtāni.

不容许得见自己的自性。如假冒的夜叉女的大种等，故为大种。

Ñ: and do not allow their individual essences to be seen. Thus they are great primaries (mahābhūta) in being equal to the great creatures (mahābhūta), the female spirits, since they are deceivers.