syād etad yadyapyanapekṣyaprāmāṇye bādhakaḥ pratyayaḥ, tathāpyabādhyamānatayā pratīta evānyasyāprāmāṇyamādhātuṃ samartho nānyathetyata āha bādhakapratyayas tāvad ityādi / bādhakapratyayas tāvad arthānyatvāvadhāraṇam / so 'napekṣapramāṇatvāt pūrvajñānamapohate //
[One might say:] "Even if the sublating cognition has validity independent [of other means of knowledge], it can establish the invalidity of another [cognition] only when it is recognized as being itself unsublated, not otherwise." To this [the author] responds: "The sublating cognition is primarily the ascertainment of the object being different [from what was previously cognized]; being independent in its validity, it sets aside the previous cognition."