Citramimamsa 71

71

naivānyatucchajanavatsagarve'yaṃ mahādyutiḥ ..'
iti vyatireke tathāpyativyāpteḥ . na ca niṣedhapratiyogikoṭyananupraviṣṭatayā vācyamiti viśeṣaṇīyam .
`vṛthā carasi kiṃ bhṛṅga tatra tatra vanāntare .
mālatyāḥ sadṛśīṃ kkāpi bhramannapi na lapsyase ..'
ityupamānaluptāyāmavyāpteḥ . tatra sadṛśalābhaniṣedhe sāmyasyāpi pratiyogikoṭiniviṣṭatvāt .
tasmādvidyānāthoktalakṣaṇamapyayuktama ..
yattu sarasvatīkaṇṭhābharaṇoktaṃ lakṣamam -
`prasiddheranurodhena yaḥ paraspasamarthayoḥ .

"Though aided by his sword alone in crushing mighty foes, / this [king] of great splendor is not at all arrogant like ordinary petty men."—
there is still an over-extension to [such a] contrast (vyatireka). Nor should it be qualified as "expressed as not entering into the limb of the counterpositive of a negation"; for there would then be an under-extension to the elliptical simile missing its standard of comparison (upamāna-luptā) in:
"Why do you wander in vain, O bee, from forest to forest? / Even wandering everywhere, you will never obtain anything like the mālati blossom."—
because there, in the negation of obtaining anything similar, the resemblance itself also enters into the limb of the counterpositive.
Therefore, the definition stated by Vidyānātha is also inappropriate.
As for the definition stated in the Sarasvatīkaṇṭhābharaṇa:
"When, in conformity with common usage, between two entities capable of mutual [relation],