Sarvadarshanasangraha 16.45

16.45

Nor is knowership itself metaphorical, because in an utterance revealing the speaker's own awareness, it is impossible for knowership to be metaphorical. Now, if spatial limitation, which is an attribute of the body, were to be metaphorically transferred to the self, then there must be a difference between body and self. For whether in ad hoc metaphor—such as the word "lion" applied to a boy where the difference is well known—or in conventional metaphor—such as the word "oil" applied to mustard-seed liquid and the like where the difference is obscured—the determination of difference between the secondary and primary referents is invariable.