nābhūtvābhāvayogasya gaganendīvarādivat // vastunyeva hyanantarabhāvitvādayo dharmāḥ samāśritā nāvastuni yathā śaśaviṣāṇādau pradhvaṃsaś ca nirātmā niḥsvabhāvaḥ tat katham asyānantarabhāvitvādayaḥ sambhaveyuḥ /
[It] cannot have the property of coming into existence after having not existed, like a sky-lotus and similar [non-existent things]. For properties like occurring immediately after [something] can only inhere in real things, not in non-entities like hare's horns. And since annihilation is essenceless [and] without own-nature, how could properties like occurring immediately after [something] be possible for it?