yadi tarhi kāladharmo vyañjakadhvanidharmo vā kramaḥ, natu paramārthato varṇadharmas tat katham asya pratyāyanāṅgatvam / na hyanyadharmo hyanyasya bhavatītyāha paradharmo 'pītyādi /
[The opponent says:] "If sequence is a property of time or a property of the manifesting sound, and not truly a property of the letters, then how can it be contributory to their expressing [meaning]? For surely a property of one thing cannot belong to another."