syād etat yathākāśaṃ mūrtatvāya na paramapekṣate atha ca tatra niyataṃ na bhavati tadvadbhāvaḥ kṛtako 'pi yaḥ pareṇānityo neṣyate / hetumataḥ sarvasyānityatvābhyupagamāt /
It might be [objected]: just as space does not depend on anything else for [its] corporeality and yet there is no fixed rule there, similarly an entity, though produced, which is not accepted by the opponent to be impermanent [might exist] - [but this is wrong] because it is accepted that everything that has a cause is impermanent.