yathānumānajñānasya vastupratibaddhaliṅgadarśanabalenotpatteḥ pāramparyeṇa vastukāryatāvasāyād eva svataḥprāmāṇyam, na sārūpyabalāt
Just as inferential cognition's self-validity [arises] merely from ascertaining its being an effect of the object indirectly through its arising from the force of perceiving an inferential mark connected to the object, not from the force of similarity.