yaduktam "tasmācchabdārthasambandho nitya evābhidhīyate" iti tatrāha sākṣād ityādi
[Regarding] what has been stated [by the Mīmāṃsaka]: "Therefore the relationship between word and meaning is declared to be eternal" - to this [the author] responds with "sākṣāt" and so forth.