成唯識論述記 2.433

2.433

The Commentary states: Below is the fourth section, which has four sub-sections. First, the objection based on the opponent's non-signification. Taking up their rescue argument, they say: 'The modulations upon the sound of speech are not signifiers; because they are modulations upon sound; like the sound of strings and pipes. Furthermore, since these modulations are of the intrinsic nature of sound, just as the modulations upon color-form are of the intrinsic nature of color-form, they cannot signify. Hence we know that there are distinct words and so forth.'