nanu ca yadi gakārādikramaḥ paramārthato na nityaḥ, nāpi vyañjakā dhvanayonāpi teṣāṃ prerakās tālvādisaṃyogavibhāgāḥ, dhvanīnāṃ prerakāṃs tān na śaknoti kartum, yāṃś cābhinavān karoti na te dṛṣṭāḥ prerakāḥ, tataś ca kathaṃ varṇāḥ krameṇābhivyaktā arthabhedapratītihetavo bhavanti /
[The opponent says:] "If the sequence of letters like 'ga' etc. is not truly eternal, nor are their manifesting sounds, nor the conjunctions and disjunctions of palate etc. that prompt them, then one cannot produce those prompters of sounds; and the new ones that one produces have never been seen as prompters; so how can letters manifested in sequence become causes for the cognition of different meanings?"