ataḥ kramasya yaugapadyavyavacchedenaiva paricchedādyaugapadyasya ca kramavyavacchedenaivetyekapramāṇavṛttir dvayor anyatarat paricchindatī tataḥ paraṃ pratiyoginaṃ vyavacchinatti prakārāntarbhāvaṃ ca sūcayatīti pratyakṣapramāṇāvasita evānayor anyonyavṛttiparihārasthitilakṣaṇo virodhaḥ /
Therefore, since succession is cognized only through the exclusion of simultaneity, and simultaneity only through the exclusion of succession, a single means of valid cognition that determines either of these two subsequently excludes [its] counterpart and indicates the impossibility of another mode - thus their mutual contradiction characterized by the impossibility of co-existence is established through direct perception alone.