anityo 'pi hetureṣāṃ viditasvarūpa eva, ātmātmīyaviparyāsahetukatvād rāgāder doṣagaṇasya tadanvayavyatirekānuvidhānād iti pūrvaṃ pratipāditatvāt /
Even though non-eternal, the cause of these [defects] is indeed known in nature, because it has been established before that the host of defects beginning with attachment has its cause in the misapprehension regarding self and what pertains to self, as they conform to the positive and negative concomitance of that [misapprehension].