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The Vision of Śiva5.19

5.19
प्राणाद्युन्मेषविरहादभिव्यक्तं नु कस्य तत् । सर्वचैतन्यवादे तु चार्वाकोऽत्र न सिद्ध्यति ॥१९॥
prāṇādyunmeṣavirahādabhivyaktaṃ nu kasya tat | sarvacaitanyavāde tu cārvāko'tra na siddhyati
— from the absence of the stirring of breath and the like ; — manifested ; — indeed ; — of whom? ; — that (insentience) ; — on the doctrine that all is sentient ; — but ; — the Cārvāka (materialist) ; — here ; — is not established (cannot win)

From the absence of the stirring of breath and the like — to whom, indeed, is that (alleged insentience) manifested (since the manifesting is itself sentient)? But on the doctrine that all is sentient, the Cārvāka (materialist) cannot establish his case here (that consciousness is a mere by-product of insentient matter).