Manava Dharmashastra 2.10.4

2.10.4

kratuphalaṃ yaḥ kāmayetānāmayaḥ svargalokaṃmiyāmiti’ | yaccoktaṃ hiṃsāyāṃ lokavedayorna viśeṣa iti tatra śāstrāvagamyo hi tasyā ayaṃ svabhāvo na pratyakṣādigocaraḥ | tatra ca bhedaḥ | rāgalakṣaṇā laukikī hiṃsā, vidhilakṣaṇā'laukikī hiṃsā | vidhilakṣaṇā tvagnīṣomīyasyeti mahānbhedaḥ | tasmānna kiñcidvede'nṛtam | vyāghātaṃ parastātparihariṣyati ślokenaiva |

It is in view of all this that the author states the reason for what he has asserted—‘The detractor of the Veda being an infidel.’ Thus the man, who would set forth arguments in support of the view that ‘the Veda is unauthoritative,’ only by way of a primâ facie statement, would not he an ‘infidel’; because such statement of the arguments would he made only for the purpose of strengthening the final conclusion (that the Veda is authoritative).