athāpi syād yatraiva hi anutpalavyudāso vartate tatraiva anīlavyudāso 'pi sthita iti ataḥ nīlotpalaśabdavācyayor apohayor ekasminnarthe vṛtter arthadvārakaṃ sāmānādhikaraṇyaṃ śabdayor api nirdiśyata iti ataḥ āha arthataś cetyādi /
But if it might be [objected] that "precisely where the exclusion of non-lotus exists, precisely there the exclusion of non-blue also stands," and therefore co-reference of the two words can also be specified through meaning, as the two apohas denoted by the words "blue" and "lotus" have application to one [and the same] referent, [then] therefore [the author] states "and from the standpoint of meaning" etc.