syād etat astyevānyacchakter lakṣaṇam yaduta nityaṃ kāryānyathānupapattyā yadgamyaṃ rūpaṃ sā śaktir iti, kāryānumeyatvaṃ śakter lakṣaṇam /
One might say: "There exists indeed another definition of śakti, namely that śakti is that form which is understood through the invariable impossibility of [an] effect [occurring] otherwise and that the characteristic of śakti is [its] inferability from effects."