Vakyapadiya 2.40

2.40

so 'yam ity abhisaṃbandho buddhyā prakramyate yadā
vākyārthasya tadaiko 'pi varṇaḥ pratyāyakaḥ kva cit //

When the connection 'this is that' is undertaken by the intellect, / then even a single phoneme sometimes causes the sentence-meaning to be understood.