tad eva saṅkhyāder āśrayasyāsiddhatvaṃ darśayati samuccayādi bhinnaṃ tu dravyam eva tathocyate svarūpād eva bhedaś ca vyāhataḥ sādhito bhavet
This shows the lack of substratum for Number etc.: if what is spoken of as such is merely Substance itself as differentiated by collection etc., then what would be proved would be a difference from its own nature, [which would be] self-contradictory.