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The Vision of Śiva6.68

6.68
किं वा नाश्यं न मृत्पिण्डं घटस्य जनकं भवेत् । तदनाशे न किंचित्स्याद्घट एव न जायते ॥६८॥
kiṃ vā nāśyaṃ na mṛtpiṇḍaṃ ghaṭasya janakaṃ bhavet | tadanāśe na kiṃcitsyādghaṭa eva na jāyate
— or is it that? ; — what is to be destroyed ; — not the lump of clay ; — the producer of the pot ; — could be ; — if it be not destroyed ; — nothing would come to be ; — the pot itself ; — is not born

Or could not the lump of clay — which is (held to be) what is destroyed (in becoming the pot) — be the producer of the pot? (Yet) if it be not destroyed, nothing would come to be; (and if it be wholly destroyed,) the pot itself is not born (from sheer nothing).