anyatheti yadi dravye dravyatvasya yaḥ samavāyaḥ sa eva guṇādiṣu guṇatvādīnāṃ na bhavet tadā saṃyogavat pratyādhāraṃ samavāyo bhidyate //
"If [it were] not so," i.e., if the inherence of the universal "substanceness" in substances were not the same as the inherence of the universal "qualityness" [and others] in qualities [and others], then inherence would vary with each substratum, just as conjunction [does].