yadyevaṃ sarvatraiva śabalasya pratītiḥ syān natu kramayaugapadyābhyām ityāśaṅkyāha vastuna ityādi
[Anticipating] the objection that "if this were so, there would be cognition of the variegated [nature] everywhere, but not through succession and simultaneity," [the author] states "vastuna" etc.