athavātmasamānpuruṣānabhisandhāya ṛtuparṇena bhāṣitam tenāvirodhād ajñāpakam etad ityādarśayann āha svasamānityādi /
Or [it may be that] Ṛtuparṇa spoke with reference to people of similar [limited] capacity as himself, [and] thus showing that this [statement] is not contradictory [and] not indicative [of the impossibility of omniscience], [the author] states [the verse] beginning with "similar to oneself."