Verse 3.14.566-567

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.566-567:

प्रसिद्धभेदं यत्रान्यदुपमानं न विद्यते ।
उपमेयस्य तत्रात्मा स्वबुद्ध्या प्रविभज्यते ॥ ५६६ ॥
योऽपि स्वाभाविको भेदः सोऽपि बुद्धिनिबन्धनः ।
तेनास्मिन् विषये भिन्नमभिन्नं वा न विद्यते ॥ ५६७ ॥

yo'pi svābhāviko bhedaḥ so'pi buddhinibandhanaḥ |
tenāsmin viṣaye bhinnamabhinnaṃ vā na vidyate || 567 ||
prasiddhabhedaṃ yatrānyadupamānaṃ na vidyate |
upameyasya tatrātmā svabuddhyā pravibhajyate || 566 ||

566. Where a really different object is not available as standard of comparison, the object of comparison is itself used as the standard in order to bring out its incomparability. A well-known example is: rāmarāvaṇayor yuddhaṃ rāmarāvaṇayor iva = Rāma-Rāvaṇa fight is like Rāma-Rāvaṇa fight. The expression: rājeva tvaṃ rājā can be explained in this manner. If so, the vati would come by the previous rule and so the present rule (P. 5.1.117) is unnecessary.

567. Even, real difference depends upon the mind. So, in this matter, there is no difference or identity.

Commentary

[It might be objected that when what is really different is available, why should what is only artificially so be made the basis for the addition of the suffix? The fact is that even real difference can do nothing unless it is grasped by the mind. In verbal usage, what the mind conceives is what really matters. Whether the difference is real or not is immaterial.]

It is now stated that on this point there is support from the author of the Mahābhāṣya.