athātmaśabdaḥ śabdatvād anityaviṣaya iti sādhyate tathāpi nityaśabdenānaikāntikaḥ
If it is to be proved that 'the word "soul," being a word, must refer to something impermanent', even then [the reasoning] is inconclusive due to [the counterexample of] the word "eternal".