apica yāvatyarthe yāvāneva vaktṛbhir viniyujyate dhvaniḥ sa tāvāneva tamarthaṃ saṅketavaśāt pratyāyayati na tu paramārthataḥ prakṛtiḥ pratyayoḥ vāsti
Moreover, whatever sound is employed by speakers for whatever meaning, that [sound] conveys just that meaning through the force of convention, but in reality there exists neither stem nor affix