vastveva vijātīyaparāvṛttaṃ sāmānyaṃ liṅgam ucyate nānyat, taccānityameveti sādhyavikalatā dṛṣṭāntasya
What is called the inferential mark (liṅga) is the universal, which is nothing but the thing [itself] as excluded from heterogeneous things, and that is non-eternal; hence the example lacks the property to be proved.