yadetadekasya pratiniyataysa kasyacitpadārthasyānantaramadṛṣṭapūrvaṃ vasturūpamupalabhyate tanmadhyāvasthātaḥ prāṅnāsīt upalabdhikṣaṇaprāptasyānupalabdheḥ /
When this previously unseen form of some particular specific thing is perceived immediately [after another], it did not exist before that middle state, because [if it had existed] it would not have gone unperceived when the conditions for perception were fulfilled.