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Detailed explanation-1: -…of causality known as the satkaryavada, according to which an effect is implicitly pre-existent in its cause prior to its production. This latter doctrine is established on the ground that if the effect were not already existent in its cause, then something would have to come out of nothing.

Detailed explanation-2: -Asatkaryavada: Theory of Causation. Also known as ‘Arambhavada’, Nyaya Philoshy views that effect is produced by a cause but the effect and the cause are not one and the same. The effect is a new product comes to the existence which was not their earlier in the cause. Hence, every effect is a new product.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Nyaya theory of causation defines a cause as an unconditional and invariable antecedent of an effect. In its emphasis on sequence-an effect does not preexist in its cause-the Nyaya theory is at variance with the Samkhya-Yoga and Vedantist views, but it is not unlike modern Western inductive logic in this respect.

Detailed explanation-4: -Therefore, asatkaryavada is also known as ‘arambhavada’. This view is opposed by Samkhya and Yoga system of Indian Philosophy. They believe in the doctrine of satkaryavada which states that the effect pre-exists in its material cause.