athāpi syān mābhūt tasya kramayaugapadyābhyām arthakriyā tatha 'pi sāmarthyamasyāstyevetyāha akiñcitkararūpasyetyādi /karyotpādanibandhanaṃ hi bhāvānāṃ sāmarthyaṃ vyavasthāpyate /
Even if one might say "Let it be that its causal efficacy is neither successive nor simultaneous, yet its efficacy still exists," [we] state "How could any efficiency..." etc. For the efficacy of entities is established on the basis of their producing effects.