दिभावरूपावस्थाप्राप्तेरेव विनाशशब्दाभिधेयत्वात्; सतो द्रव्यस्याविच्छेदात् ॥
उभयथा च दोषात् ॥ २२ ॥
^उत्पन्नस्य तुच्छतापत्तौ तुच्छादुत्पत्तैौ ^^चाभावादुत्पत्त्यसंभवात् ^^^अभावात्मककार्यापत्तिरूपदोषात्तुच्छत्वासिद्धि: ॥
आकाशे चाविशेषात् ॥ २३ ॥
is denoted by the words, 'destruction of the pot' is 'the assumption of the state of the broken pieces.' Because also the substance, that has an existence, cannot brook an interruption.
22. Ubhayathaa ca dosaat
And on account of the defects presenting themselves in either case.
In the doctrine which accepts that the thing originated is of the nature of nothingness and the thing is originated from that of the nature of nothingness, the following difficulty could not be got over, namely-A thing cannot be produced from the negation and the thing so produced will be of the nature of negation. Hence, nothingness as stated by others can not be established.
23. Akaase caavisesaat
. And in the case of spatial ether also, on account of their being no difference.
^सत: adde¢ before M 1.
^^ च भावादुत्पत्य M 1.
^^^ भावात्मक A 1, M 1, 3,
