tasyāpi dravyasya paryāyarūpeṇodayavyayākrāntasyeṣṭatvādato mābhūt sādhyavaikalyaprasaṅga iti niyatātmavad ityuktam / niyataścāsāvātmā svabhāvo dravyādirūpeṇeti viśeṣaṇasamāsaḥ //
[The phrase] "like the fixed nature" is stated [to address the objection] that "since that substance too is accepted as subject to origination and destruction in the form of modes, there might be a lack of what is to be proved"; and the compound "niyatātmā" is a karmadhāraya compound meaning "that which has a fixed nature in the form of substance etc."