evaṃ tarhi yata eva pramāṇāddhetuḥ sādhyāvinābhūtaḥ sādhyadharmiṇi siddhas tata eva sādhyam api siddham iti vyartho hetuḥ /
If [it is] thus, then from whichever means of cognition the hetu is established as inseparable from the sādhya [and] as present in the minor term, from that very [means] the sādhya too would be established; hence the hetu would be useless.