Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-3.93

2-3.93

saṃvatsaraḥ prajananam
tattadabhipūrvaṃ prajananaṃ kriyate
pra prajayā paśubhirjāyate ya evaṃ veda
tāḥ prajanyākāmayatānnavatīrma imāḥ prajā syuriti
sa etaṃ satrājitaṃ yajñamapaśyat
tamāharat
tenāyajata
sa pañcaviṃśo bhavati
caturviṃśatyardhamāso vai saṃvatsaraḥ
annādyaṃ pañcaviṃśī
annādyamevābhyastatpañcaviṃśyā prāyacchat
tasya trīṇi śatāni stotryā bhavanti
sā virāṭ
annaṃ virāḍetadevābhyastadannādyaṃ prāyacchat
tā asyānnavatīḥ prajā abhavan
sa yaḥ kāmayeta bahubhiḥ prajayā paśubhiḥ prajāyeyānnāvatīrma imāḥ prajā
syuriti sa etābhyāṃ yajeta
bahureva prajayā paśubhiḥ prajāyate'nnavatīrasya prajā bhavanti

The year is procreation.
In regular succession, procreation is thereby performed.
He who knows this is procreated with offspring and cattle.
Having procreated them, he desired: 'May these offspring of mine possess food.'
He saw this Satrājit sacrifice.
He brought it;
he sacrificed with it.
It consists of twenty-five [stotras].
The year indeed consists of twenty-four half-months.
Food is the twenty-fifth.
Through the twenty-fifth, he then bestowed food upon them.
Its praise verses are three hundred.
That is the Virāj.
The Virāj is food; he then bestowed food upon them.
These offspring of his became possessed of food.
He who desires: 'May I be procreated abundant with offspring and cattle; may these offspring of mine possess food,' should sacrifice with these two.
He is procreated abundant with offspring and cattle; his offspring become possessed of food.