 Vaiśeṣika-sūtra (Aphorisms on individuation) also has passages which allude to inferences whereby one thing is inferred on the basis of something observable which bears one of five relations to the thing inferred (VS 9.18; Jambuvijaya (ed.) 1961 p. 69; cp. VS 3.1.8), though no examples are given. Nonetheless, in the case of both texts, it is clear from the description that the inferences would have the following form: