Vaisheshikasutra 3.1.3

3.1.3

so 'napadeśaḥ |

saḥ—that, i.e., perception; anapadeśaḥ—the semblance or simulacrum of a mark; a false mark.

3. Perception (as a mark inferring the body or the senses as 'its substratum) (is) a false mark.—119.

[Read sūtra 3.1.3 above]

‘Anapadeśaḥ’ means the appearance or semblance of an ‘apadeśa—’ i.e., mark. Thus the meaning is that the being an effect of the body or the senses is the mere semblance of a mark—inasmuch as such an argument applies to the cognition produced by a lamp is therefore not-one-pointed, i.e., multifarious.—3.

The sense or the object cannot be a mark for the inference of the Self.