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The Vision of Śiva4.86

4.86
सादृश्यादथ चेन्नास्ति याथात्म्येन समागमः । नच वात्रानुमानत्वं धूमतः केवलाद्भवेत् ॥८६॥
sādṛśyādatha cennāsti yāthātmyena samāgamaḥ | naca vātrānumānatvaṃ dhūmataḥ kevalādbhavet
— from similarity ; — or if (you say) ; — there is no ; — in (its) true reality ; — conjunction ; — and nor ; — here ; — the character of (valid) inference ; — from smoke alone ; — would arise

Or if (you ground inference) on similarity — (then) there is no conjunction (with the object) in its true reality; and from smoke alone (taken as a bare similar) the character of (valid) inference could not arise here either.