syād etanmābhūt kalpiteṣu sāmānyam atītājāte tu tannibandhanā buddhir bhaviṣyatīti, tadetan mithyā, na hyāśritānām ayaṃ dharmo yadāśrayamantareṇāpi tathāpi doṣa eva, kevalasya sāmānyasya grahaṇānabhyupagamāt /
[If one says:] "Let there be no universal in imagined things; but in past and unborn things, cognition will be based on it" - this is false, for it is not the nature of dependent things to exist without their substrate, and even if [they could], the problem remains, since the apprehension of a universal by itself is not accepted.