Sarvadarshanasangraha 3.22

3.22

for no such thing is observed in mirrors and the like. Furthermore, just as cognition arising from an object imitates its blue form, if it were likewise to imitate its insentience as well, then like the object it too would be insentient. And thus, desiring profit, you would lose even your principal; and so a great calamity would have occurred.