Vaiśeṣika Sūtra 9.2

9.2

sad asat |

sat—existent; a-sat—non-existent.

2. The existent (becomes) non-existent.

As the non-existence of the effect, prior to the operation of the cause, is proved by perception and inference, so is it proved by perception and inference, after the operation of a club, etc., which destroys it, that a really existent effect, e.g., a water-pot, etc., is now nonexistent. And this same non-existence is commonly described as. annihilation or destruction (or consequent or emergent non-existence.) For there arise such cognitions as that the water-pot is now destroyed, annihilated, that the letter ga which was heard before, no longer exists, etc. This is the import.—2.