nahi vastvantarādhāram etaddṛṣṭaṃ prakāśakam // anupūrvasvabhāva ānupūrvam, tasyānupūrvamātrasya nāsmākaṃ vācakatvaṃ prasajyate vyabhicāritvād iti bhāvaḥ /
For sequence residing in something else has never been observed to be illuminative. The meaning is: because of [its] variability, mere sequence does not for us result in being expressive.