syād etat mābhūtsphoṭasya vācakatvaṃ, varṇā eva nityāḥ santo vācakā bhaviṣyanti, teca nityāḥ pratyakṣādipramāṇataḥ siddhā ity āha anityeṣvityādi
One might say: "Let it be that sphoṭa has no expressiveness; the letters themselves, being eternal, will be expressive, and these [letters] are established as eternal through perception and other means of valid cognition." [To this] he states "anityeṣu" etc.