Establishment of Brahman 3.69

3.69

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.