idam eva hi vastulakṣaṇaṃ yadarthakriyāsāmarthyaṃ taccennivṛttaṃ tat kathaṃ vastutvaṃ tallakṣaṇaṃ teṣvavasthāṃ labhate /
For this indeed is the characteristic of a real thing: the capacity for effective action; if that has disappeared, how could existence, being its characteristic, remain in those [things]?