कपालादिकजन्यत्वमभावस्तस्य संगता ।
सत्यस्य कारणापेक्षा घटादिजनने यथा ॥७४॥
kapālādikajanyatvamabhāvastasya saṃgatā |
satyasya kāraṇāpekṣā ghaṭādijanane yathā
(Only on our view) is the absence (pot-destruction) coherently producible by potsherds and the like; (for) the dependence of the real on a cause (holds), just as in the production of a pot and the like (— absence too being a positive state of the persisting substance).