yadā tu sāmānyeṣvaparāṇi sāmānyanīṣyante vaiyākaraṇaiḥ, yathoktam "arthajātyabhidhāne 'pi sarve jātyabhidhāyinaḥ / vyāpāralakṣaṇā yasmāt padārthāḥ samavasthitāḥ"//
However, the grammarians maintain that universals do exist in [other] universals, as stated [in Vākyapadīya 3.16]: "Even when both object and universal are denoted, all words denote the universal, since all entities exist characterized by [their] function."