Sarvadarshanasangraha 2.32

2.32

Now, does this assistance, though required for the sake of the effect, produce the effect independently of the seed and the like, or depending on it? On the first alternative, the seed and the like would turn out not to be causes. On the second alternative, an excellence must be produced in the assistance by the seed and the like which are depended upon; thus, in each succeeding instance as well, an infinite regress of excellences residing in the excellences produced by the seed and the like would inevitably follow—so the second infinite regress would be firmly established. In the same way, another assistance must be produced in the substratum, namely the seed and the like, by the assistance that is depended upon; thus an infinite regress of excellences residing in the seed and produced by the assistance would follow—so a disastrous third infinite regress would result.