nanu ca vede pra{mī]yamāṇaṃ tatkathamatra{nu}mayā bādhyate, atha pramāṇam api bādhyeta / anumāpi kasmāt tena na bādhyata ityāśaṅkyāha tasyā ityādi / tasyā vastunibaddhāyāḥ ko bādhāṃ maṃsyate jaḍaḥ / śabdamātreṇa tucchena tadbhāvinyāthavā dhiyā //
[Objection:] "How can what is being proved in the Veda be refuted here by inference? If [something established by] a valid means of knowledge were refuted, why would inference not [also] be refuted by it?" Anticipating this objection, [the author] states "tasyā" etc.: "What fool would consider refuting that [inference] which is bound to reality, by mere empty words or by cognition arising from them?"