yat tu pratibhāsamānapadārthaviruddhākārāvasāyākrāntam udeti, tan na pramāṇam, yathā marīcikāgrāhijñānaṃ jalāvasāyākrāntam, tatra yathoktapramāṇavyāpārābhāvāt.
However, that [perception] which arises as affected by the ascertainment of a form contrary to the appearing object is not valid, like the cognition that grasps a mirage [when it is] affected by the ascertainment of water, because in that case the aforementioned operation of valid cognition is absent.