nanu yenātmanā vastu samānāparavastunaḥ / vyāvṛttaṃ tat sajātīyais tenaiva sadṛśaṃ yadi // vijñāyeta vijātīyair api tulyatayā tadā /
"If the form by which a thing is differentiated from other similar and dissimilar things were the same as that by which it is similar to things of the same class, then it would also be cognized as similar to things of a different class."