apoha mātra vācya tvam yat iha abhyupagamyate  / nīlotpala ādi śabdeṣu śabala artha abhidhāyiṣu // viśeṣaṇa viśeṣya tva sāmānādhikaraṇyayoḥ / na siddhiḥ na hi anīla tva vyudāse anutpala cyutiḥ  // na api tatra itaraḥ tasmāt na viśeṣya viśeṣaṇe / śabdayoḥ na api te syātām abhidheya anapekṣayoḥ // 
It is held that what is denoted is Apoha only; under this theory, there can be no possibility of the relation of qualification and qualified or of co-ordination, in the case of such verbal expressions as ‘blue-lotus’, which have a mixed connotation; because the ‘exclusion of the non-blue’ does not involve the ‘exclusion of the non-lotus’,—nor does the latter involve the former, hence the relation of qualification and qualified is not possible (between the blue colour and the lotus).—Nor would the said relation be possible between the words apart from what they denote.”—[Ślokavārtika-Apoha 115-117] 