nanu ca yadi sthiro bhāvaḥ siddho bhavet tadā tatra kramayaugapadyanivṛttau satyāmarthakriyāyāḥ sāmarthyanivṛttiḥ siddhyet /
[Objection:] "If a permanent entity were established, then even when succession and simultaneity are absent there, the negation of the capacity for efficacious activity would [not] be established.