yattāvannityadravyavṛttitvamantyadravyabhāvitvaṃ ca viśeṣāṇāṃ lakṣaṇam uktaṃtadasambhavadoṣaduṣṭatvād alakṣaṇam eva nahi nityaṃ kiñciddravyam asti tasya pūrvaṃ dravyaparīkṣāyāṃ vyapoḍhatvāt, tat kathaṃ tadvṛttittvam eṣāṃ siddhyet //
That which has been stated as the definition of individualities - [namely] their subsistence in eternal substances and their existence in ultimate substances - is not a [valid] definition at all due to being flawed by the fault of impossibility, for there exists no eternal substance, since that has been rejected earlier in the examination of substance; so how could their subsistence in that [eternal substance] be established?