tat santānāntaracittaṃ mātrādisambandhi upādānakāraṇaṃ vā syāt, sahakārikāraṇaṃ, vā na tāvad upādānakāraṇaṃ putrajñānasantāne 'pi mātāpitṛśrutādisaṃskārādiviśeṣānutpa{vru---}ttiprasaṅgāt yathā pitroreva svottarabuddhiṣu /
Would that consciousness belonging to another stream [i.e.,] related to the mother etc., be either the material cause or the contributory cause? It cannot be the material cause, because [if it were] there would follow the [absurd] consequence that the specific impressions of learning etc. of the mother and father would arise even in the son's stream of cognitions, just as [they do] in the parents' own subsequent cognitions.