katham asau tulyetyāha yadītyādi yadi dadhyādayaḥ santi dugdhādyātmasu sarvathā / teṣāṃ satāṃ kimutpādyaṃ hetvādisadṛśātmanāṃ //
How this [argument] is equal [he] explains thus: "If curd and other [effects] exist completely within the essence of milk etc., then what is to be produced of these [already] existent [things] whose nature is identical to [their] cause etc.?"