Mimamsasutra 3.2.9

Since no direct Vedic statement is postulated when a foundation solely in visible greed is possible, / this [tradition], even though free of sublation unlike the complete wrapping, is indeed not valid cognition.

In the Jyotiṣṭoma, when the framework of the animal sacrifice to Agni-Soma has commenced, the Vaisarjana offering is enjoined. There, having covered the sacrificer, wife, sons, and brothers with an unwashed cloth, and tying the ladle handle to the edge of the cloth, he makes the oblation. In tradition, regarding that cloth, it is remembered: "The Adhvaryu priest takes the cloth belonging to the Vaisarjana offering." This tradition is not sublated by a direct Vedic statement like the tradition of complete wrapping. Therefore, it is a means of valid cognition, like the traditions of the Aṣṭakā and the like. When this is obtained,

we say: At some time a certain Adhvaryu priest took that cloth out of greed. The assumption is also possible that this tradition has just that as its foundation. And this assumption follows what is seen, because greed is observed in priests hired by the sacrificial fee. That being so, when this tradition can be accounted for otherwise, a foundational direct Vedic statement cannot be postulated as with the Vedic texts for the Aṣṭakā and so forth. Therefore, even though there is no sublation, this tradition is not a means of valid cognition, because there is no different foundation. / [End of topic].