gavayasthaṃ tarhi sādṛśyaṃ liṅgaṃ bhaviṣyati, tatra tasya gṛhītatvād ity āha gavaye gṛhyamāṇaṃ ca na gavām anumāpakam vyadhikaraṇatvāt kākasya kārṣṇyādivat //
"Then the similarity residing in the gavaya would be the probans, since it is apprehended there." [But] what is apprehended in the gavaya cannot bring about inference of cows, due to [their] being in different substrates, like the blackness of a crow [cannot prove anything about other things].