tatra na tāvadādyaḥ pakṣaḥ, naṣṭasyāsattvena tata utpādābhyupagame kāryasyanirhetukatvaprasaṅgāt /
The first view cannot be right, because if production from what has been destroyed [and is therefore] non-existent were admitted, it would follow that the effect would be without cause.