Sarvadarshanasangraha 2.70

2.70

bāhyaṃ grāhyaṃ nopapadyata eva/ vikalpānupapatteḥ/ artho jñānagrāhyo bhavann utpanno bhavati anutpanno vā/ na pūrvaḥ/ utpannasya sthityabhāvāt/ nāparaḥ/ anutpannasyāsattvāt/ atha manyethāḥ atīta evārtho jñānagrāhyas tajjanakatvād iti tad api bālabhāṣitam/ vartamānatāvabhāsavirodhāt/ indriyāder api jñānajanakatvena grāhyatvaprasaṅgāc ca/ kiṃ ca grāhyaḥ kiṃ paramāṇurūpo ´rtho ´vayavirūpo vā/ na caramaḥ/ kṛtsnaikadeśavikalpādinā tannirākaraṇāt/ na prathamaḥ/ atīndriyatvāt/ ṣaṭkena yugapad yogasya bādhakatvāc ca/ yathoktam:

In consequence, then, of these four points of view, when all ideas are come to an end, final extinction, which is a void, will result. Accordingly we have overtaken our end, and there is nothing to be taught to us. There consequently remain only two duties to the student—interrogation and acceptance. Of these, interrogation is the putting of questions in order to attain knowledge not yet attained. Acceptance is assent to the matters stated by the sacred teacher. These (Bauddha nihilists) are excellent in assenting to that which the religious teacher enounces, and defective in interrogation, whence their conventional designation of Mādhyamikas (or mediocre).