Sarvadarshanasangraha 2.118

2.118

Now, if it is objected that this causal relation is not possible without a conscious agent, the aphorism says: 'dependent', etc. When a cause exists, having depended on it—having reached it—that conformity, that following along in its origination, is itself the nature of things that remains fixed, whether [Tathāgatas] arise or do not arise. Nor is any conscious presiding agent apprehended here: this is the meaning of the aphorism.