tasmādyatsmaryate tat syāt sādṛśyena viśeṣitam / prameyamupamānasya sādṛśyaṃ vā tadāśritam //
Therefore, either that which is remembered [i.e. the cow] qualified by similarity [to the gavaya] is the object of analogical cognition, or the similarity itself as subsisting in that [cow].