Sarvadarshanasangraha 14.28

English (machine translation) 14.28

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14.28

because those whose state as a cloth has become manifest by a difference of arrangement are demonstrated to perform the causal efficacy of covering. For just as the limbs of a tortoise, withdrawing into the body of the tortoise, disappear, and issuing forth, appear, even so specific modifications, such as the cloth, issuing forth from the cause such as threads, appearing, are said to be 'produced', and withdrawing, disappearing, are said to be 'destroyed'; but there is no production of what is nonexistent, nor destruction of what is existent. As has been stated in the Bhagavadgītā:

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The Sarva-darśana-saṃgraha, or Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy — Edward Byles Cowell & Archibald Edward Gough 1882, English

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Sarvadarśanasaṅgraha — Mādhava, Sanskrit