Madhvaon Brahma Sūtra 2.1.7
Dvaita Vedānta
Numbered 2.1.8 in this text
Sūtra
असदिति चेन्न प्रतिषेधमात्रत्वात्
asaditi cenna pratiṣedhamātratvāt
Sūtra translation
If it be taid that (Asat, the antecedent non-existence) is the cause of the world, we say the view it wrong ; for it it abtolule negation.
1 Asat * or the non-existent (the antecedent non- existeuce) cannot be rightly (supposed) the cause of the world, beause it is the negation (of all existence). . The objection refused in this Adhikarana is that scriptural statements are in conflict with the (other) statements which speak of the non-existent as the cause, etc. The objection arises thus. Though all the words have been explained so as to become applicable to Brahman, still according to the principles propounded in the Sutras. (“Whatever is under His control may be denoted by His name,”) etc., other things are admitted to be denoted by words in a secondary sense. Therefore what is refuted here is only the supposition apparently suggested by scripture that the non-existent is the cause of the existent; for the philosophical system that every- thing comes out of non-being is refuted later on. Here, the contradiction in reasoning (»'.*., in the form of inconsistency) is removed in effect (by the way).