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The Vision of Śiva6.91

6.91
अभावस्यापि वस्तुत्वे न विनाशोऽस्ति कस्यचित् । अभावस्यपि करणे सम्पत्तिर्नोपपद्यते ॥९१॥
abhāvasyāpi vastutve na vināśo'sti kasyacit | abhāvasyapi karaṇe sampattirnopapadyate
— of an absence too ; — if it have thing-hood ; — there is no (sheer) destruction ; — there is ; — of anything ; — of an absence too ; — in (its) being made ; — a coming-to-be (from nothing) ; — is not tenable

And if an absence too have thing-hood, there is no (sheer) destruction of anything; (and likewise) in the producing of an absence too, a coming-to-be (from nothing) is not tenable (— so nothing is utterly destroyed or utterly originated).