atra tenaiva bhadantena dūṣaṇam uktam yadyapīndriyavijñapter grāhyāṃśaḥ karaṇaṃ bhavet / atadābhatayā tasyā nākṣavad viṣayaḥ sa tu //
Here that same Bhadanta [Śubhagupta] stated this objection: "Even if the grasped aspect were the instrument of sense-cognition, since it does not appear as such [in cognition], it cannot be its object like the sense faculty."