yataś cākṣuṣatvam anityatvāvinābhāvyapi śabde tadanityatvaṃ na sādhayati, yataścāvaśyaṃ sarvatra pakṣadharmatvamāśrayaṇīyam, ataḥ pakṣadharmatvāśrayaṇādekarūpatayoktānāṃ dvairūpyamāvaśyakaṃ dvirūpatayā coktānāṃ, trairūpyaṃ tata eva pakṣadharmata ityekalakṣaṇā eva klībā hetavaḥ /
Since visibility, even though invariably concomitant with non-eternality, does not prove non-eternality in sound, and since the property of being present in the subject must necessarily be accepted in all cases, therefore due to accepting the property of being present in the subject, what were stated as having one characteristic must necessarily have two characteristics, and what were stated as having two characteristics [must have] three characteristics, precisely because of [requiring] the property of being present in the subject. Thus only the one-characteristic reasons are [truly] impotent.