Aitareyabrahmana 3.34

3.34

tad agninā paryādadhus, tan Maruto 'dhūnvaṃs, tad agnir na prācyāvayat.
tad agninā vaiśvānareṇa paryādadhus, tan Maruto 'dhūnvaṃs,
tad agnir vaiśvānaraḥ prācyāvayat.
tasya yad retasaḥ prathamam udadīpyata, tad asāv Ādityo 'bhavad.
yad dvitīyam āsīt, tad Bhṛgur abhavat.
taṃ Varuṇo nyagṛhṇīta, tasmāt sa Bhṛgur Vāruṇir.
atha yat tṛtīyam adīded iva, ta Ādityā abhavan.
ye 'ṅgārā āsaṃs, te 'ṅgiraso 'bhavan.
yad aṅgārāḥ punar avaśāntā udadīpyanta, tad Bṛhaspatir abhavad
yāni parikṣāṇāny āsaṃs te kṛṣṇā pasavo 'bhavan,
yā lohinī mṛttikā te rohitā.
atha yad bhasmāsīt, tat paruṣyaṃ vyasarpad:
gauro gavaya ṛśya uṣṭro gardabha iti ye caite 'ruṇāḥ paśavas te ca
tān vā eṣa devo 'bhyavadata: mama vā idam, mama vai vāstuham iti.
tam etayarcā niravādayanta yaiṣā raudrī śasyata
ā te pitar marutāṃ sumnam etu mā naḥ sūryasya saṃdṛśo yuyothāḥ \
tvaṃ no vīro arvati kṣamethā
iti brūyān nābhi na ity, anabhimānuko haiṣa devaḥ prajā bhavati
pra jāyemahi rudriya prajābhir iti
brūyān na rudrety, etasyaiva nāmnaḥ parihṛtyai
tad u khalu śaṃ naḥ karatīty eva śaṃsec,
cham iti pratipadyate, sarvasmā eva śāntyai.
nṛbhyo nāribhyo gava iti.
pumāṃso vai naraḥ striyo nāryaḥ, sarvasmā eva śāntyai
so 'niruktā raudrī śāntā, sarvāyuḥ sarvāyutvāya
sarvam āyur eti ya evaṃ veda
so gāyatrī. brahma vai gāyatrī, brahmaṇaivainaṃ tan namasyati

iii. 34 (xiii. 10). It they surrounded with Agni; it the Maruts blew upon; Agni could not make it move; they surrounded it with Agni Vaiçvānara; the Maruts blew upon it; then Agni Vaiçvānara caused it to move. The first part of the seed that was kindled up became yonder Āditya; the second became Bhṛgu; him Varuṇa took; therefore is Bhṛgu descended from Varuṇa. The third (part), that was brilliant (adīdet) as it were, became the Ādityas. The coals became the Aṅgirases; in that the coals after being quenched blazed forth again, Bṛhaspati came into being. The extinguished coals became black cattle; the reddened earth ruddy (cattle). The ash which there was crept about in diverse forms, the buffalo, the Gayal, the antelope, the camel, the ass, and these ruddy animals. To them this god said ‘Mine is this, mine is what remains.’ Him they deprived of a claim by this verse which is recited as addressed to Rudra,

‘O father of the Maruts, let thy goodwill approach us;
Do thou not sever us from the sight of the sun;
Do thou, hero, be merciful to our steeds’;

so should he say, not ‘Towards us’ (in the last line); this god is not likely to attack offspring then;

‘May we be multiplied with children, O thou of Rudra,’

so he should say, not ‘O Rudra’, to avoid the use of the actual name. Or rather he should recite ‘Weal for us let him make’; with ‘weal’ he begins, for weal for all. ‘For men, for women, for cows’ (he says); men are males, women are females; (verily it serves) for weal for all. This verse, being without mention (of the name of the deity) though addressed to Rudra, is appeased; with full life, for fullness of life, a full life he lives who knows thus. It is a Gāyatrī; the Gāyatrī is holy power; verily thus with the holy power he honours him.