yadi svata eva prāmāṇyaniścayas tadā niścayena prāmāṇyasya vyāptatvād yatrāniścayas tatra sāmarthyād aprāmāṇyasyāvasthānād bādhakasadbhāvo yatnamantareṇaiva niścita iti tadbhāvasiddhyartho vyartho yatnaḥ, tatra caikasyāpi parīkṣakajñānasyāpekṣāvakāśo naiva sambhavatīti, kiṃ punas trayāṇām
If validity is established by itself, then - since validity is pervaded by certainty - where there is uncertainty, there by implication must be invalidity due to the presence of a sublating [cognition] being established without effort; hence any effort to prove its existence would be futile, and there would be no possibility for even a single investigative cognition, what to speak of three.