syād etadyadi nāma tadapekṣā teṣām tathāpi tatkāryatā katham avasitetyāha apekṣā kāryatocyata iti /
[One might object:] "Even if this is their dependence [on space and time], how is it established that they are effects of these?" [To this we reply:] "Dependence is what is called being an effect."