syād etan mābhūdarthayor viśeṣyaviśeṣaṇabhāvas tadvācakayos tu śabdayoḥ kimiti na bhavatītyata āha śabdayor ityādi /
[If] this objection were raised: "Even if there is no relation of qualifier and qualified between the meanings, why should it not exist between the words that express them?" — to this [the author] says "between words" etc.