nanu ca yadi viṣayākāraṃ jñānaṃ syāt tadā bhaved viṣayasārūpyasya prāmāṇyam, yāvatā grāhyaviṣayasamānākāraṃ samānasvabhāvaṃ jñānam upapadyate, naiva tathā, grāhyāj jātyantaratvād rūparasayor ivetyāha grāhyetyādi /
"If cognition were to have the form of [its] object, then the validity [would lie] in its similarity to the object; however, cognition having the same form and nature as the object to be grasped is not possible, because it belongs to a different category than what is to be grasped, just like [in the case of] color and taste" - thus [the opponent] speaks about what is to be grasped and so forth.