naca tat kāryatvam eva tadvedakatvaṃ vijñānasyeti yuktaṃ kalpayituṃ mābhūccakṣurādivedakatvam apyasyeti // bhadantaśubhaguptastvāha vijñānamanāpannaviṣayākāram api viṣayaṃ pratipadyate tat paricchedarūpatvāt tasmānnāśaṅkā kartavyā kathaṃ paricchinatti kiṃvat paricchinattīti /
And it would not be correct to imagine that being an effect [of an object] alone constitutes cognition's apprehension of it, for then it might also be considered an apprehender of the eye etc. However, Bhadanta Śubhagupta states: "Cognition apprehends objects even without taking their form, because it has the nature of determination. Therefore one should not worry about how it determines [objects] or what it determines like."