nahi yatprajñaptyāṃ ca tadeva kāraṇaṃ yuktaṃ aprajñaptisattvaprasaṅgād anyathātmaprajñapter ātmaiva kāraṇaṃ syāt na skandhāḥ /
For it is not correct that something is itself the cause of its own cognition, as [this would] lead to [its] non-conceptual existence; otherwise, the self would be the cause of self-cognition, not the skandhas.