tathā hi śakyam idam ittham abhidhātuṃ / na sadakaraṇādupādānagrahaṇāt sarvasambhavābhāvāt / śaktasya śakyakaraṇāt kāranabhāvāc ca satkāryam iti /
For thus it can be stated: "Because what is existent cannot be produced, because there is recourse to material cause, because all things are not possible, because what is capable produces only what it is capable of, and because of the nature of causality, [therefore] the effect is not pre-existent."