US-P18.143ab ।US-P18.143cd ।US-P18.143ef ॥
In plain words
Some hold that arising is itself the action, and that this same arising is also the one who acts. Then: if the being of this arising is nothing but perishing, you must equally admit that it has a doer. And if you answer, "We admit no attribute at all," you have just walked away from your own position.
Close to the Sanskrit
Those for whom becoming is action itself, and that same becoming is also called the causal factor — if the being of this becoming is perishability, then let its having an agent likewise be admitted. And if [it is said] 'no attribute whatsoever is admitted,' [that is] abandonment of the thesis.