Sarvadarshanasangraha 10.36

10.36

vibhāgajavibhāgo dvividhaḥ — kāraṇamātravibhāgajaḥ kāraṇākāraṇavibhāgajaś ca/ tatra prathamaḥ kathyate — kāryavyāpte kāraṇe karmotpannaṃ yadāvayavāntarād vibhāgaṃ vidhatte na tadākāśādideśād vibhāgaḥ/ yadā tv ākāśādideśād vibhāgo na tadāvayavāntarād iti sthitiniyamaḥ/ karmaṇo gaganavibhāgākartṛtvasya dravyārambhakasaṃyogavirodhivibhāgārambhakatvena dhūmasya dhūmadhvajavargeṇeva vyabhicārānupalambhāt/ tataś cāvayavakarmāvayavāntarād eva vibhāgaṃ karoti nākāśādideśāt/ tasmād vibhāgād dravyārambhakasaṃyoganivṛttiḥ/ tataḥ kāraṇābhāvāt kāryābhāva iti nyāyād avayavinivṛttiḥ/ nivṛtte ’vayavini tatkāraṇayor avayavayor vartamāno vibhāgaḥ kāryavināśaviśiṣṭaṃ kālaṃ svatantraṃ vāvayavam apekṣya sakriyasyaivāvayavasya kāryasaṃyuktād ākāśadeśād vibhāgam ārabhate na niṣkriyasya/ kāraṇābhāvāt/

"Disjunction produced by disjunction" is twofold,—that produced by the disjunction of the intimate [or material] causes only, and that produced by the disjunction of the intimate cause and the non-cause [i.e., the place]. We will first describe the former kind.

It is a fixed rule that when the action of breaking arises in the [material] cause which is inseparably connected with the effect [i.e., in one of the two halves of the pot], and produces a disjunction from the other half, there is not produced at that time a disjunction from the place or point of space occupied by the pot; and, again, when there is a disjunction from that point of space occupied by the pot, the disjunction from the other half is not contemporary with it, but has already taken place. For just as we never see smoke without its cause, fire, so we never see that effect of the breaking in the pot which we call the disjunction from the point of space,[34] without there having previously been the origination of that disjunction of the halves which stops the conjunction whereby the pot was brought into being. Therefore the action of breaking in the parts produces the disjunction of one part from another, but not the disjunction from the point of space; next, this disjunction of one part from another produces the destruction of that conjunction which had brought the pot into existence; and thence arises the destruction of the pot, according to the principle, cessante causâ cessat effectus. The pot being thus destroyed, that disjunction, which resides in both the halves (which are the material or intimate causes of the pot) during the time that is marked by the destruction of the pot or perhaps having reference only to one independent half, initiates, in the case of that half where the breaking began, a disjunction from the point of space which had been connected with the pot; but not in the case of the other half, as there is no cause to produce it.[35]