Establishment of Brahman 3.56

3.56

niyogaparyavasitaṃ vaidikaṃ vacaḥ, sa ca pramāṇāntarasyāgocara ityanapekṣatvam /
sādhyasādhanabhāvaniṣṭhaṃ tu laukikaṃ vacaḥ, sa pramāṇāntaraviṣaya iti sāpekṣatā /

Vedic speech culminates in an injunction, and that is not within the scope of another means of valid cognition; hence there is independence. But secular speech is devoted to the relation of means and end, and that is an object of another means of valid cognition; hence there is dependence.