tadabhivyaktilakṣaṇāpi sthirirayuktā tathā hi tadviṣayajñānotpādanam eva tasyābhivyaktir na tu svabhāvaparipoṣaṇalakṣaṇā nityasya svabhāvānyathākranāsambhavāt, tataś ca tasya yadi svata eva jñānotpādanasāmarthyaṃ tadā kimityabhivyaktikāraṇamapekṣate / athāsāmarthyaṃ tadā parair anādheyaviṣayatvān na tadapekṣā yuktimatī
Even the staying [of universals] characterized by manifestation is unreasonable; for its manifestation is merely the production of cognition regarding it, not the characteristic of strengthening its nature, since it is impossible to alter the nature of what is eternal. Therefore, if it has the capacity to produce cognition by itself, why would it depend on a cause of manifestation? And if it lacks this capacity, then, being something into which nothing can be introduced by others, such dependence would not be reasonable.