athāpi syād bāhyasyāpyātmasaṃvittivad vinaiva grāhyagrāhakabhāvena saṃvittir bhaviṣyatītyāha nahi tadrūpam ityādi / nahi tadrūpamanyasya yena tadvedane param /
[One] might object: "Just as there is self-cognition [of cognition], so too there could be cognition of external objects without the apprehended-apprehender relationship." [To this he] says: "For that form does not belong to anything else, by which another [could be] cognized."