nanu ca vedādhyayanavācyatvād ityasyāpi hetor vyāptiḥ sarvopasaṃhāreṇa siddhaiva, tathā hi vedānāṃ kartā na kadācid apyupalabhyata ityāśaṅkyāha vedādhyayanetyādi / vedādhyayanavācyatve natvevaṃ vyāptiniścayaḥ /
[If someone objects:] "But isn't the invariable concomitance of the reason 'because it is spoken of as Vedic study' also established as all-encompassing, since an author of the Vedas has never been observed?" [We respond that] in the case of being spoken of as Vedic study, there is no such certainty of invariable concomitance.