[subhāṣita/apophthegm] Both are unaware of each others' instrinsic qualities!

[Vyom A. Shah]

शुद्धाशयः कुटिलतां न खलस्य वेत्ति शुद्धाशयत्वमखलस्य खलोऽपि नैव।

अज्ञानमूढहृदयः सुजनः खलो वा स्वात्मानुरूपमखिलं कलयत्यवश्यम्॥

[शुद्धाशयः। कुटिलताम्। न। खलस्य। वेत्ति। शुद्धाशयत्वम्। अखलस्य। खलः। अपि। नैव।

अज्ञान-मूढ-हृदयः। सुजनः। खलः। वा। स्वा-ऽऽत्मा-ऽनुरूपम्। अखिलम्। कलयति। अवश्यम्।]

{śuddhāśayaḥ kuṭilatāṃ na khalasya vetti śuddhāśayatvamakhalasya khalo'pi naiva.
ajñānamūḍhahṛdayaḥ sujanaḥ khalo vā svātmānurūpamakhilaṃ kalayatyavaśyam..}

A person of pure heart is unaware of the deceitfulness of a wicked individual, just as a wicked person is oblivious to the purity of a virtuous one. Whether one is virtuous or wicked, when one's heart is stupefied by ignorance, they inevitably perceive everything resembling to themselves.

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This verse is from

Text name: Madanarekhā Ākhyāyikā

Author of text: Jinabhadrasūri

Text description: An akhyāyikā genre text on like of Madanarekhā. It is only known ākhyāyikā after Bāṇa's Harṣacaritam. Edited by Bechardās Doṣī as L. D. Series 39.

Publishers: L. D. Institute of Indology (1973)