syād etan na sādṛśyāpekṣametajjñānamupavarṇyate / kintu yat teṣām āśrayabhūtaṃ dravyaṃ tadgataikatvādikādekārthasamavāyitvād etadguṇakarmasamavāyādiṣvekādijñānaṃ bhavatīti tadetad āśaṅkayann āha taddravyetyādi / taddravyasamavetāc ced ekatvāt parikalpyate / guṇādiṣvekavijñānam ekārthasamavāyataḥ //
[Someone] might say: "This cognition is not described as dependent on similarity, but rather the cognition of 'one' etc. regarding qualities, actions, inherence etc. occurs because they inhere in the same [thing] as the oneness etc. residing in that substance which is their substrate." Anticipating this [objection, the author] states "from that substance" etc.: "If the cognition of oneness regarding qualities etc. is imagined [to arise] from the oneness inherent in that substance, due to [their] inherence in one thing..."