sargasthitipralayānām anyatamasyaikasya kriyākāle tadaparakāryadvayotpādanasāmarthyaṃ kimastyuta nāstīti vikalpadvayam /
At the time when one among the three acts of creation [sarga], maintenance [sthiti], and dissolution [pralaya] is being performed, is there or is there not the capacity to produce the other two effects? These are the two alternatives.