pramāṇanivṛttimātrātmake tṛtīye 'bhāvalakṣaṇe dūṣaṇam āha abhāvasyetyādi /
[The author] states the refutation of the third definition of absence - which consists merely in the cessation of means of valid cognition - [beginning with the words] "abhāvasya" ["of absence"].