Establishment of Brahman 2.32

2.32

vyavasthite eva janyajanakaśaktī pitṛputraśabdayorabhidheye, te tu samānajananavyāpāraviṣaye tāvāskandataḥ, svabhāvabhedāt /
ato yena samānatvam, tatrāpekṣā /
etaduktaṃ bhavati ---
śabdārthastatra sāpekṣaḥ, na vastu /
apekṣāhetuśca tatra sādhāraṇī kriyā vidyate vyavasthitayorapi vastunoḥ /
bhāvabhede tvayaṃ vastutattvagato vicāraḥ, na cāpekṣāhetuḥ kaścidupalabhyate /
hrasvadīrghayorapyekajātīyāyāṃ kriyāyāṃ deśavyāptau nyūnādhikabhāvādevaṃ draṣṭavyam /

The capacities of being generated and being the generator are established indeed as the referents of the words ‘father’ and ‘son’; but they apply to those two in the sphere of a common activity of generation, because of the difference of their nature.
Therefore, where there is commonality, in that respect there is dependence.
What is said is this:
The meaning of the word is dependent there, not the entity.
And a cause for dependence, a common action, exists there even between two established entities.
In the case of difference among entities, however, this inquiry pertains to the reality of the entity, and no cause for dependence is observed.
In the case of short and long as well, it should be regarded thus: from their being lesser or greater in spatial extension within an action of the same class.