प्रमातृत्वेनाहम् इति विमर्शो ऽन्यव्यपोहनात्
विकल्प एव स परप्रतियोग्य् अवभासजः ॥५॥
pramātṛtvenāham iti vimarśo 'nyavyapohanāt
vikalpa eva sa parapratiyogy avabhāsajaḥ
— as a (limited) cognizing subject; — 'I'; — thus; — the reflective awareness; — because of the exclusion of an other; — is indeed a conceptual construction; — that (awareness); — having an other as its counter-correlate; — born from an appearance
— that reflective awareness '(I am) an I, as a limited cognizing subject', because it excludes an other, is indeed a conceptual construction, having that other as its counter-correlate and born from an appearance.