Madhvaon Brahma Sūtra 2.2.18
Dvaita Vedānta
Numbered 2.2.19 in this text
Sūtra
इतरेतरप्रत्ययत्वादिति चेन्नोत्पत्तिमात्र निमित्तत्वात्
itaretarapratyayatvāditi cennotpattimātra nimittatvāt
Sūtra translation
If it be said that the period of dissolution is possible in the Vaiseshika system when the perception is inter- rupted of the relative parts, which is the cause of the cognition of, and communication with regard to, the aggregates, we say f no f for the atoms (the members of an aggregate) can duly b$ the cause of aggregates.
The Vaiseshika may state that the aggregate though permanently existing can be thought. of or spoken of as cause and effect on the perception of the parts mutually related in the group; hence it is possible in his system to account for a period of dissolution or Pralaya. (But this position cannot be maintained according to that system. For a whole body of separate atoms ceases to exist when it has produced a single effect. Consequently it is not consistent in the system to admit that an in- dividual cognises the atoms as such and proceeds to perceive their mutual relation and then speaks of it as an aggregate). Moreover, in that system, it cannot be admitted that the aggregates in which atoms inhere are permanent; for according to their invariable principle, that the cause existing, the effect must be produced, the permanent aggregates should in their turn be producing innumer- able effects in a short time.