Verse 470

Tap any word for its meaning.

US-P18.059ab ।US-P18.059cd ॥

In plain words

All right then! If the literal sense doesn't apply, and the figurative sense doesn't either, in any way at all — even so, you still have to say how a word like "knows" works.

Close to the Sanskrit

Well then! In that case, neither is [it] the primary meaning, nor the figurative one either, in any way whatsoever; yet even so, the course of a word such as 'knows' must be stated.