ataḥ svata evaiṣāṃ parasparavailakṣaṇyam atihetutvam aṅgīkriyate tadā paramāṇvādīnām api taddhetutvaṃ svata evāstu ko hyatra teṣu pradveṣo yena teṣāṃ svata eva parasparavyāvṛttamūrtinām api satāṃ paramāṇvādīnāṃ parasparavailakṣaṇyajñānotpattihetutvaṃ neṣyate viśeṣāṇāṃ tviṣyata iti /
Therefore, if it is accepted that their mutual distinctness is self-established, then let the atoms etc. also have this [distinctness] self-established - for what is this aversion towards them, due to which their capacity to produce cognition of mutual distinctness is not accepted for atoms etc., even though they have mutually exclusive forms by their very nature, while it is accepted for viśeṣas?