व्याप्यः स देश एकेन व्याप्यतेऽप्यपरैः कथम् ।
परस्परेण व्याप्यत्वाद्व्याप्यव्यापकता भवेत् ॥९९॥
vyāpyaḥ sa deśa ekena vyāpyate'pyaparaiḥ katham |
paraspareṇa vyāpyatvādvyāpyavyāpakatā bhavet
That place, being pervadable, is pervaded by one — how (then is it pervaded) also by others? (For if it were,) by reason of (their) mutual pervadability, a relation of pervaded-and-pervader (among the atoms themselves) would result (— an absurdity for the realist).