yadyevam yadi dhvaṃsasyānantarabhāvitvaṃ nāsti tadā bhāvasya dhvaṃso bhavatīti / na hi yo na bhavatyeva tasya bhavatīti syād ityāśaṅkyāha pradhvaṃsa ityādi /
[One might object:] "If this is so, if annihilation does not have the property of occurring immediately after [something], then what does it mean to say 'there is annihilation of the thing'? For what does not exist cannot be said to 'be'" - thinking thus, [the author] states [the following].