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In plain words
Lakṣaṇā has three forms: jahatī, which abandons the literal sense; ajahatī, which retains it; and a third that does both. Of these, jahatī cannot apply here.
Close to the Sanskrit
Lakṣaṇā is to be known as threefold: jahatī, the abandoning kind; ajahatī, the non-abandoning kind; and the other, which has the nature of both. Among these, the first cannot apply at all.