nanu ya utpadya vyāpāraṃ nāviśet viśeṣotpādārthaṃ sa kathaṃ hetuḥ syād ity āha janmātiriktetyādi /
[One might ask:] "Indeed, how could something that, after coming into existence, does not enter into activity for the purpose of producing a specific [effect] be a cause?" – To this [the author] says "janmātirikte" and so forth.