yadyevaṃ, yadi tadabhāvo nityatā, na tarhi vastudharmo nityatā prāpnotītyāha yannādau kriyata iti
If this is so, if eternality is [merely] the absence of these [endpoints], then eternality would not be a positive property of an entity - [addressing] this [objection, the author] states "that which is not created in the beginning" etc.