Sarvadarshanasangraha 2.15

2.15

tatra kṣaṇikatvaṃ nīlādikṣaṇānāṃ sattvenānumātavyaṃ yat sat tat kṣaṇikaṃ yathā jaladharapaṭalaṃ santaś cāmī bhāvā iti/ na cāyam asiddho hetuḥ/ arthakriyākāritvalakṣaṇasya sattvasya nīlādikṣaṇānāṃ pratyakṣasiddhatvāt/ vyāpakavyāvṛttyā vyāpyavyāvṛttir iti nyāyena vyāpakakramākramavyāvṛttāv akṣaṇikāt sattvavyāvṛtteḥ siddhatvāc ca/ tac cārthakriyākāritvaṃ kramākramābhyām vyāptam/ na ca kramākramābhyām anyaḥ prakāraḥ saṃbhavati/

Of these points of view, the momentariness of fleeting things, blue and so forth (i.e., whatever be their quality), is to be inferred from their existence; thus, whatever is is momentary (or fluxional) like a bank of clouds, and all these things are.[4] Nor may any one object that the middle term (existence) is unestablished; for an existence consisting of practical efficiency is established by perception to belong to the blue and other momentary things; and the exclusion of existence from that which is not momentary is established, provided that we exclude from it the non-momentary succession and simultaneity, according to the rule that exclusion of the continent is exclusion of the contained. Now this practical efficiency (here identified with existence) is contained under succession and simultaneity, and no medium is possible between succession and non-succession (or simultaneity); there being a manifest absurdity in thinking otherwise, according to the rule—