athāpi siddho 'ṅgīkriyata na tarhi tasya pratikṣepo yuktaḥ tasya dharmiṇaḥ svarūpeṇa siddhyabhyupagamāt /
If, however, [you] accept [it] as established, then [your] denial of that [locus] is not reasonable, since [you would be] admitting the existence of that substratum in its own nature.