Madhvaon Brahma Sūtra 2.2.20

If it be said that when the cause has ceased to exist, * he effect is produced, it would be a contradiction to on& of the fundamental assumptions (of the system) that the cause necessarily exists while yet the effect takes place ; (and it would be absurd to say that a particular is the effect of something that has ceased to be, i.e., effect has been produced by what has ceased to exist). Or if it be said that at the time when the effect is being produced the cause exists, there being no reason to suppose that the production of the effect is the destruc- tion of the cause which has existed in the second mo- ment along with the effect, there would result twofold absurdity. First, as the cause must exist in the third and subsequent moments there being nothing to des- troy it, it must every moment be producing fresh effects which in their turn produce other effects for ever according to the fundamental principle that the cause existing the effect must be produced. Thus there would be an endless production of effects. Secondly the cause and effect existing in the same moment, may both become at once the cause of other effects, and all the causes and effects would have a simultaneous existence. (In the following Sutra, the cessation of the effects is also refuted).