nāpi bhinnakālabhāvinā, tasyāpi jñānāntarasyāsiddhau tadgrāhyasyāsiddhau tadgrāhyasyāpi jñānasyāvyaktavyaktikatvenāsiddhes tasyāpi jñānāntareṇa siddhāviṣyamāṇāyām anavasthāprasaṅgāt //
Nor [can cognition be established] by another cognition occurring at a different time, because if that other cognition is not established, what is to be cognized by it cannot be established; and because the cognition that is to be cognized would [then] have an unmanifested manifestation; and if that [cognition] too would have to be established by yet another cognition, an infinite regress would result.