Abhava is absence, non-being, nullity, negation; an ontological object in the Nyaya Vaisheshika System in Hinduism. Abhava is of four kinds, prak (prior), pradhvamsha (posterior), itaretara (reciprocal) and atyantra (absolute) When an object like a pot is yet to be made, it has no existence. This prak-abhava (prior non-existence) has no beginning. When the same pot, after it comes into existence, is broken into shards, it is said to pass into non-existence again. This is its pradhvamsha abhava (posterior non-existence), which thus has a beginning but has no end, according to the adherents of Nyaya and Vaisheshika Schools of thought. Advaitins such as Dharmaraja differ saying that when the shards are reduced to powder, the posterior non-existence of the pot ends and this does not entail the re-emergence of the pot. Destruction (or posterior non-existence) of anything is non-eternal as nothing is eternal in the world, at least according to the advaitins. If,