Establishment of Brahman 3.69

3.69

ata eva pauruṣeyatvāpauruṣeyatve sāpekṣatvānapekṣatvakāraṇe nyāyavidbhirdaśite pauruṣeyatvanirākaraṇaprayatnena ---
‘autpattikastu śabdasyārthena saṃbandhaḥ'; iti /
autpattike śabdārthasambandhe 'svātantryācchabdasya na puruṣabuddhipūrvakatvamiti na pramāṇāntarasaṃbhinnā śabdādarthāvagatiriti nirapekṣatvam /

For this very reason, authorship and authorlessness were shown by the masters of logic to be the causes of dependence and independence, through the effort to refute authorship [with the aphorism]:
'Inherent, however, is the relation of the word with its meaning.'
When the relation between word and meaning is inherent, because a word is not dependent, it does not originate from human intellect; hence, the apprehension of meaning from a word is not commingled with another means of valid cognition, and so there is independence.