tathā hi arthakriyākāritvaṃ, sattvalakṣaṇam akṣaṇikasya ca kramayaugapadyābhyām arthakriyāvirodhād arthakriyānivṛttau tallakṣaṇasya sattvasya nivṛttir iti sādhyavipakṣān nivṛttaṃ sattvam
For causal efficacy is the definition of existence, and since what is non-momentary contradicts causal efficacy both successively and simultaneously, when there is absence of causal efficacy there is absence of existence which is defined by it - thus existence is excluded from what lacks the probandum