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TATTVA-KAUMUDI
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Karika IX
The effect is existent; (1) because what is ‘non
existent' cannot be produced; (2) because The five proofs of there is a definite relation of the cause the effect being
ing (with the effect); (3) because all is not an entity
possible; (4) because the efficient can do only that for which it is efficient; (5) (lastly). because the effect is of the same essence as the cause.
(63) Because what is non-existent cannot be produced, etc. 'The effect is existent,'-- even before the operation of the cause,—this is what is meant. The followers of Nyāya cannot urge against this doctrine the objection that it involves the absurdity of doing what is already done' (1. e., if the Effect is already existent, the operation of the Cause must be superfluous);—such an objection cannot be raised [ for reasons to be explained later on].
[As regards the theory that 'the Existent effect emanates from the Non-existent cause'] though it is true that products like the sprout and the jar are found to be produced after the destruction of the seed and clay-lump [ so that it would appear as if the products were the outcome of this Destruction, which is non-existent].-yet the causal efficiency cannot be attributed to Destruction, which is a pure negation; it can belong only to the positive entities in the shape of the constituent particles of the seed and the clay-lump. If a positive entity were produced out of mere negation, then, in as much as such negation (of things) would be easily available everywhere, it would involve the absurd contingency of all things being produced at all places and at all times. All this has been fully explained by us in the Nyāyavārtikatātparyaţikā.
