Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-3.48

2-3.48

etasyātmanassaptatriṃśaṃ śataṃ paṅktayo bhavantyardhapaṅktiśca
tena paṅktiśchandāḥ
tā u eva dvānavatiratichandasaḥ
atichandā vai sarvāṇi chandāṃsyabhibhavati
tadvā asya tatsarvāṇyeva chandāṃsyupetāni bhavanti
tadāhuḥ kathametatsarvamahaḥ pañcaviṃśaṃ bhavatīti
saṃpadeti brūyāt
kathaṃ saṃpadeti
padyeti nava śīrṣṇo gāyatryaḥ
tāsāṃ saptaviṃśatiḥ padāni
ṣaṭchataṃ pakṣayordvācatvāriṃśatpucchasya
tadyānīmāni saptaviṃśatiśśīrṣṇaḥ padāni tato dve ādāya ṣaṭchata upadadhati
atha pañcaviṃśaḥ pariśiṣyate
tato yacchataṃ catvāraste pañcaviṃśāḥ
atha yānyaṣṭāvatiricyante tāni dvācatvāriṃśatyupadadhati
tau dvau pañcaviṃśau
pañcaviṃśa eva pañcaviṃśam
sarvaṃ pañcaviṃśaṃ bhavatīti

For this body, there are one hundred and thirty-seven paṅktis and a half-paṅkti. By that, it is of the paṅkti meter. These very [verses] are ninety-two atichandases. The atichandas indeed overcomes all meters. Thus indeed all the meters are attained for him. As to that, they say: 'How does this entire day become twenty-five-fold?' 'By correspondence,' he should say. 'How by correspondence?' By quarters: nine gāyatrīs of the head; of these, there are twenty-seven quarters. One hundred and six belong to the two wings; forty-two to the tail. Then, taking two from these twenty-seven quarters of the head, they place them into the one hundred and six. Then a twenty-fifth remains. Then what is a hundred of that, those are four twenty-fives. Then the eight that remain over, those they place into the forty-two. Those are two twenty-fives. Just twenty-five into twenty-five. Everything becomes twenty-five-fold.