Gahakāraka
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Gahakāraka ; ‘The builder of the house’ of self, the self which holds together unreal components in an unreal unity and gives the illusion of being a compound thing.
The analogy is from a house which, being taken to pieces, ceases to be—a house. An equally well used analogy is that of the chariot.
But for an attack on these analogies as false see Sammitīya.
See Dhp. 153–4. and for verse translation Arnold, The Light of Asia, Book Sixth.