syād etat dravyātmakasyāpi sataḥ saṅkhyāder bhedaḥ prasādhyata ity āha ---svarūpādevetyādi /
One might object: "The difference of number etc., though being of the nature of substance, is what is to be proved." [To this, he] responds with [the words] beginning with "from [its] essential nature."