tadevamajñānapakṣe 'yaṃ doṣaḥ, jñānapakṣe 'pi niyatam asau prāktena jñāta iti sthiratvamasya balād āpatatīti darśayann āha jānāti cedityādi //
Thus, while this is the defect in the view of non-cognition, [the author] shows that in the view of cognition too it necessarily follows that it [the word] must have been known before [by him], which establishes its permanence, by saying "if [he] knows, etc."