ahetuś ca tadavyāpakaṃ ceti tathoktam nacāpyetacchakyaṃ vaktum, akāraṇāvyāpakabhūtasyāpyanumānākhyasya pramāṇasya nivṛttau vastu nivartamānaṃ dṛṣṭam eva{mati} /
The compound means "neither cause nor pervader," and it cannot be said that when the means of knowledge called inference, which is neither cause nor pervader, is absent, the thing [in question] is seen to be non-existent.