Sarvadarshanasangraha 10.36

10.36

Disjunction produced by disjunction is twofold: produced by disjunction of causes alone, and produced by disjunction of a cause and a non-cause. There, the first is explained: When an action arisen in a cause pervaded by an effect produces disjunction from another part, it does not then produce disjunction from a spatial region such as ether. But when there is disjunction from a spatial region such as ether, it does not then produce disjunction from another part: this is a fixed rule of situation. For the action's not being the producer of disjunction from the ether—by virtue of being the producer of a disjunction opposed to the conjunction producing a substance—is never found to deviate, just like smoke with respect to the class of fires. And therefore, the action of a part produces disjunction only from another part, not from a spatial region such as ether. From that disjunction comes the cessation of the conjunction producing the substance. Then, by the maxim that "from the absence of the cause comes the absence of the effect," the cessation of the whole occurs. When the whole has ceased, the disjunction existing in its two parts, which are its causes, dependent upon time characterized by the destruction of the effect or upon an independent part, produces a disjunction of only that part which possesses action from the ether-region conjoined with the effect, not of an inactive part, because of the absence of a cause.