Vaisheshikasutra 5.2.2

5.2.2

tad viśeṣeṇādṛṣṭakāritam |

tat—that, i; e., action in Earth. viśeṣeṇa—with a particular consequence; adṛṣṭa-kāritam—caused by adṛṣṭa or destiny.

2. (If action in Earth happens) with a particular consequence, it is caused by adṛṣṭa.

[Read sūtra 5.2.2 above]

‘Tat’ alludes to action in Earth. Action in Earth alone, if it happens with a particular consequence, i.e., under the tendency (vāsanā) of transmigratory souls towards birth, life, and experience (bhoga), is then caused by adṛṣṭa. Therefore, the non-combinative cause of earthquake is conjunction of the soul, possessing adṛṣṭa, of a person whose pleasure or pain is produced by the earthquake; the earth is the combinative cause; and adṛṣṭa is the efficient cause.

‘Or’ ‘tat’ alludes to impulse and impact. ‘Viśeṣaḥ’ means absence. So that, the meaning is, action in Earth, which is produced in the absence of impulse and impact, is caused by adṛṣṭa.—2.