Sarvadarshanasangraha 2.15

2.15

Among these, momentariness is to be inferred in the moments of blue and the like by their existence: whatever is existent is momentary, just like a mass of clouds, and these entities are existent. Nor is this inferential reason unestablished, because existence, defined as the capacity for causal efficacy, is established by perception for the moments of blue and the like; and because, by the rule that the exclusion of that which is pervaded follows from the exclusion of that which pervades, the exclusion of existence from the non-momentary is established upon the exclusion of succession and non-succession, which are the pervaders. And that causal efficacy is pervaded by succession and non-succession; nor is any manner possible other than succession and non-succession,