evaṃ manyate nahīcchāmātreṇa vastunaḥ siddhyasiddhī bhavataḥ, yenābhyupagamamātreṇa na siddhamāgamaprāmāṇyaṃ bhavet, kiṃ tarhi---, pramāṇabalena yat siddhaṃ taddvayor api siddham, dṛḍhataraścāgnihotrādivākyāt pratyaya iti pratipāditam, tat katham apramāṇam iti śakyaṃ vaktum /
"[Thus the Mīmāṃsaka] thinks: Things do not become established or unestablished merely through desire, by which mere acceptance [of an opinion] would invalidate the authority of scripture. Rather, what is established through the force of valid means of cognition is established for both [parties]. And it has been explained that the conviction [arising] from Vedic statements about the Agnihotra etc. is exceptionally strong. How then can one say that it is not a valid means of cognition?"