evaṃ sati kramasyaiva padatvaṃ vācakatvaṃ bhavatāṃ mīmāṃsakānāṃ prasajyate, natu kevalānāṃ varṇānām /
This being so, for you Mīmāṃsakas it follows that word-hood and expressiveness belong to the sequence alone, not to mere letters.