athāpi syāt yadyapyuttarakālaṃ manodhīḥ pūrvapūrvabuddhiprabhavā bhavati tathāpi yā prathamakālabhāvinī tasyā dehopādānatvād ato nānāditvasiddhir iti /
[The opponent] might further object: "Even though mental cognition at a later time arises from each preceding cognition, nevertheless that [cognition] which exists at the first moment must have the body as its material cause; therefore beginninglessness is not established."