Sarvadarshanasangraha 3.23

3.23

athaitaddoṣaparijihīrṣayā jñānaṃ jaḍatāṃ nānukarotīti brūṣe hanta tarhi tasyā grahaṇaṃ na syād ity ekam anusaṃdhitsato ´paraṃ pracyavata iti nyāyāpātaḥ/

If, in your wish to escape this difficulty, you assert that "the perception does not follow the object in being insentient," then there would be no perception that the object is insentient,[6] and so it is a case of the proverb, "While he looks for one thing which he has lost, another drops." "But what harm will it be if there is no perception of a thing's being insentient?" [We reply], that if its being insentient is not perceived, while its blue form is perceived, the two may be quite distinct [and as different from each other as a jar and cloth], or it may be a case of "indeterminateness" [so that the two may be only occasionally found together, as smoke with fire]. And again, if insentience is not perceived contemporaneously with the blue form, how could there then be conformity between them [so that both the blue and the insentience should together constitute the character of the thing?] We might just as well maintain that, on perceiving a post, the unperceived universe entered into it as also constituting its character.[7]