Purva-Mimamsa in its Sources c25.2

c25.2

Being expressive,—and serving the purpose of asserting and recalling things in connection with the acts enjoined by the Injunctive texts, *Mantras* are clearly helpful in providing the knowledge of *Dharma*. Only those *Mantra-texts* which are not found to serve such purposes are to be used at the performances in their purely verbal form; and even so they serve a distinctly useful purpose in relation to what is *Dharma*.