chedana ityādinā kaumārilacodyamāśaṅkate chedane khadiraprāpte palāśe na chidā yathā / tathaiva paraśor loke chidayā naikateti cet //
[The opponent] raises a Kumārila-style objection beginning with "cutting": "Just as when cutting occurs in a khadira tree, the cut does not appear in a palāśa tree, similarly in the world an axe is never identical with the cut [it produces]."