Sarvadarshanasangraha 2.34

2.34

nāpy akrameṇa ghaṭate/ vikalpāsahatvāt/ tathā hi/ yugapat sakalakāryakaraṇasamarthaḥ svabhāvas taduttarakālam anuvartate na vā/

Practical efficiency, therefore, in the non-momentary is inadmissible. Nor is practical efficiency possible apart from succession in time; for such a possibility is redargued by the following dilemma. Is this (permanent) entity (which you contend for) able to produce all its effects simultaneously, or does it continue to exist after production of effects? On the former alternative, it will result that the entity will produce its effects just as much at one time as at another; on the second alternative, the expectation of its permanency is as reasonable as expecting seed eaten by a mouse to germinate.