na cāsatā saha paurvāparyaṃ bhāvikaṃ yuktaṃ kevalaṃ sahabhūtayor na kāryakāraṇabhāvo 'stīti tad dvāreṇa parikalpya samutthāpitaṃ pūrvāparayoḥ kṣaṇayoḥ sattvaṃ prāk paścādabhāvavat /
And sequence with what is non-existent cannot be real; it is merely conceptually constructed through [the fact] that there cannot be a cause-effect relationship between simultaneously existing [things], just like prior and posterior non-existence.