yugapad anekendriyārthasannikarṣasānnidhye 'pi krameṇa jñānotpattidarśanādād astīndriyārthavyatiriktaṃ kāraṇāntaraṃ yasya sannidhānāsannidhānābhyāṃ jñānasyotpattyanutpattī bhavata iti
Even when contact between multiple sense-organs and [their] objects is simultaneously present, because cognitions are seen to arise successively, there exists some other cause distinct from sense-organs and objects, through whose presence and absence the arising and non-arising of cognition occurs.