yadi hi kūṭasthanityatayā varṇā nityā bhaveyur evaṃ sati puruṣaparamparayā vyavahārasambhavāt kramodayaḥ kramasyātmalābho bhavet, yathā ghaṭādiracanā paramāṇumūlāt
If Letters were unchangeably eternal, then through the succession of human usage, the Order would come into being [and] acquire its existence, just as the formation of jars and such things proceeds from atoms as their basis.