ato bhāvābhāvātmakaḥ bhāvaniṣedhātmako nāśo na kenacit kriyate avastutvāt kharaviṣāṇavat /
Hence destruction, which is of the nature of non-existence [and] consists in the negation of being, cannot be brought about by anything, due to [its] being a non-entity, like a hare's horns.