anyathā hi yadi kāraṇanivṛttāvapi na nivarteta tat kāraṇam eva na syāt / nahi yadyasmin sa{nnasa---}tyapi bhavati tat tasya kāraṇaṃ yuktam atiprasaṅgāt /
For if it were otherwise—if [the effect] did not cease even when the cause is absent—then it would not be a cause at all. For that which exists even when something else is absent cannot reasonably be its cause, as [this would lead to] unwanted consequences