nāśasya hi nīrūpatvād vyāpārābhāvaḥ, hetvabhimatasyāpi vastunaḥ kāryasaktākāle sannidhānābhāvād vyāpārābhāvaḥ
For destruction, being featureless, has no operation; and the entity regarded as the cause has no operation because of [its] absence at the time when the effect comes into being.