tatra sāmānyaṃ dvividhaṃ paramaparaṃ ca, paraṃ sattākhyaṃ, tac ca samasteṣu triṣu dravyaguṇakarmasvanuvṛttipratyayasyaiva kāraṇatvāt sāmānyam eva na viśeṣaḥ /
Here, the universal is of two kinds - higher and lower. The higher [universal] is called Being, and it is only a universal, not a particular, because it is the cause only of the cognition of pervasion in all three [categories] - substance, quality and action.