Purva-Mimamsa in its Sources c19.s1.20

c19.s1.20

Then, as regards the question as to how to determine the facts of certain words forming a single Sentence or text,—the principle adopted is that just as a number of letters denoting a certain conceptual unit is regarded as one Word, so when a number of words express a single complete conceptual Idea, they are regarded as one Sentence. (*Mīmā. Sū. 2.1.16—see below—the Principle of Syntactical Convention.*)