svahetupratyayasamutthāpitāt kāraṇasya śaktipratiniyamāddhetor yat kāryaṃ yataḥ kṣaṇaprathamabhāvinaḥ kāraṇāj jātaṃ kiñcidviśiṣṭam, dvitīye kṣaṇe sannidhiḥ sadbhāvo yasyeti vigrahaḥ, tat kāraṇaṃ tat kāryaṃ janayatītyucyate /
Due to the restriction of potency of the cause that is produced from its own causal conditions, whatever particular effect arises from the cause existing in the first moment - which [effect] has its presence in the second moment - that cause is said to produce that effect.