nanu ca mīmāṃsakānām api yujyata eva, na hi teṣāṃ matena varṇā vinaṣṭāḥ yena na bhāseran /
[One might object:] "But it is indeed compatible with the Mīmāṃsakas' [view] too, because according to their view the letters are not destroyed, so that they could not appear."