viṣayavajjaḍarūpatvāc cakṣurādīnāṃ na viṣayagrahaṇaṃ mukhyato 'sti, kevalaṃ vijñānaṃ prati hetubhāvamātreṇa teṣāṃ viṣayagrahaṇaṃ kalpitamityajñātair eva tair viṣayajñānotpādakatayā viṣayā gṛhyante iti syāt, nanvevaṃ vijñānena viṣayasya kiñcitkriyate, yenājñātam api cakṣurādivad viṣayaṃ gṛhṇātīti syāt /
Since the eye and other [sense organs] are of insentient nature like [their] objects, they do not directly grasp objects; their grasping of objects is merely postulated through their being causes with respect to cognition, such that objects are grasped by them—though themselves uncognized—through their capacity to produce cognition of objects; but then [one might ask] whether cognition does something to the object, by which it might grasp the object—though itself uncognized—like the eye and other [sense organs].