naca śaktirūpeṇa tadā vijñānam astīti kalpayituṃ yuktaṃ, jñānāśrayasyātmano naiyāyikādiprakalpitasya vijñānaprabandhasya vā tadānīm abhāvāt /
Nor is it reasonable to imagine that consciousness exists then in the form of a potency, because at that time there is neither the soul postulated by the Naiyāyikas [and others] as the substratum of consciousness, nor [is there] the continuum of cognitions.