yatra hi pāramparyād vastuni pratibandho 'sti tasya bhrāntasyāpi sato vikalpasya maṇiprabhāyāṃ maṇibuddhivan na bāhyārthānapekṣatvamasti /
Indeed where there is a connection with an object through a mediating process, even though [the conception] is erroneous, that conceptual cognition is not independent of the external object - just as the cognition of a jewel [arising] from the radiance of a jewel.