bahutareṣu sugatakapilakaṇabhakṣākṣapādādiṣu tadbhaktaiḥ sarvajñatvenopakalpiteṣu sādhyeṣu katama eko 'tra sarvajñatvenāvadhāryatāṃ niścīyatām, sarveṣām atīndriyārthopadeṣṭṛtvasya sarvajñaniścayahetos tulyatvāt /
Among the many [teachers] – Buddha, Kapila, Kaṇāda, Akṣapāda and others – who are regarded by their respective devotees as omniscient and whose omniscience is sought to be proved, which single one should be definitively ascertained as omniscient, since the ground for determining omniscience, [namely] the teaching of supersensuous matters, is equally [present] in all of them?