tathā hi dvividha eva bhāvānāṃ kramaḥ, deśakṛto vā pipīlikālipyakṣarādivat, kālakṛto vā yathā bījāṅkurakāṇḍapuṣpaphalādīnām, na tāvad ādyaḥ kramo varṇānāṃ sambhavati, vyāpteḥ, sarvagatatvād varṇānām, nahyākāśavat sakaladeśāvaṣṭambhenāvasthitasya deśavicchedakṛtaḥ kramo yuktaḥ, sarveṣām ekanabhodeśāvasthānāt
For indeed, sequence of entities is only of two kinds: either spatial, as in ant-trails and written letters etc., or temporal, as in [the series of] seed-sprout-stem-flower-fruit etc. The first kind of sequence is not possible for letters because of [their] pervasiveness, since letters are all-pervading; just as for space, which exists pervading all places, spatial separation-based sequence is not logical, since all [letters] exist in the same space.