svabhāvahetor bhedo 'svabhāvatā prāpnoti, kāryahetor animittatvaṃ nirhetukatvaṃ prāpnoti, naca svabhāvakāryavyatirekeṇānyaliṅgamiṣṭamanyatrāpratibandhād avinābhāvāyogāt /
[For] the svabhāvahetu would obtain difference [and thus] non-svabhāva-ness, and the kāryahetu would obtain causelessness [and thus] absence of cause, and no other probans apart from svabhāva and kārya is admitted, because there would be no connection and no invariable concomitance elsewhere.