[328] Sakavādin: "The past exists; the past does not abandon its state of being past?"
Paravādin: "Yes."
Sakavādin: "Is the past permanent, stable, eternal, not subject to change?"
Paravādin: "It should not be said thus." …
Sakavādin: "Is it not that the past is impermanent, unstable, not eternal, subject to change?"
Paravādin: "Yes."
Sakavādin: "If the past is impermanent, unstable, not eternal, subject to change, then indeed it should not be said: 'The past exists; the past does not abandon its state of being past.'"
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.