syād etad yathā tulāntayor nāmonnāmau samaṃ bhavatas taddhetuphalayor nāśotpādāviṣṭāvato vartamānād avinaṣṭād eva kāryotpatter iṣṭatvānnānimittātasyotpattir bhaviṣyatītyāha nāśotpādasamatve 'pītyādi /
[The opponent] might argue thus: "Just as the rising and falling of the two ends of a scale occur simultaneously, so too the destruction [of the cause] and production [of the effect]; since it is accepted that the effect arises from the present [cause] while it is still not destroyed, its production will not be without cause" - [to this we] reply [with the verse beginning] "Even if destruction and production are simultaneous..."