idam eva hi sāmānyapratyayasya nibandhanaṃ vyāpi yaduta saṅketābhogaḥ, anyathā hyabhāveṣvabhāva ityanugataḥ pratyayo dhvaniś ca kena na virudhyeta na hyatra jātir asti vastusamavāyinītvāt tasya / kasmān na virudhyata ityatra kāraṇam āha anarthasaṅketānugamāt tayor iti
For this alone - namely the scope of convention - is the pervasive basis of the general notion; otherwise, how would the comprehensive notion we have regarding absences as "absence" and its verbal expression not be contradictory, since there can be no universal here, as that [universal] inheres only in positive entities. The reason why it is not contradictory is stated by [the words] "from their following of convention without [additional] entities."