Sarvadarshanasangraha 14.23

14.23

Therefore, even prior to the causal operation, the effect is existent alone. And the manifestation of that which is existent is intelligible, as [the manifestation] of oil in sesamum seeds by pressing, and of milk in cows by milking. No example whatsoever is seen for a nonexistent [effect] in a cause. Moreover, is the cause connected with the effect as its producer, or disconnected? On the first alternative, the existence of the effect is established, because of the rule that connection belongs only to two existent things. On the latter alternative, all effects would arise from anything, since there would be no distinction in disconnectedness. This was stated by the Sāṃkhya teachers: