bhārate 'pi bhavedevaṃ prasañjanaṃ, tatra kartā vyāptaḥ smaryata iti tayā kartṛsmṛtyā pratijñārthasya bādhitatvād aprasaṅgaḥ / vede tu na smṛtiḥ /
Though such an argument might apply to the Mahābhārata, [its] author is widely remembered there, [and] thus due to this memory of [its] author, the proposition is invalidated and cannot be applied. In the Veda, however, there is no such memory [of an author].