US-P18.114ab ।US-P18.114cd ॥
In plain words
If you argue that actual change takes place in the reflection, I answer no—just as in the case of the rope and the illusory snake, or the reflection of a face in a mirror, as I have already explained.
Close to the Sanskrit
If [there is] transformation in the reflection, [we say] no, because of the resemblance to the rope and the like, and of the snake and so forth. Thus I have spoken, and like the face-ness in a mirror.