Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-5.177

2-5.177

atha haika āhuḥ pañcarātra evaiṣa syāt
tatraivaitānanvahaṃ paśūnālabheteti
tadu hodara śāṇḍilya sthaviramekayāvānaṃ papraccha yadidaṃ vivadanto pañcarātra
evāsetyeka ukthya eva saptadaśa ityeke kathaṃ sa āseti
sa hovācokthyameva nastaṃ saptadaśamekāhamabhyavedayanteti
atha haika āhuratirātra evaiṣa syāt
kathaṃ pañca varṣāṇi yajña āgūrṇo'natirātra syāditi
taddha tanna tathā
agniṣṭoma eva syādityeke
agniṣṭomādvai sarve yajñakratavastāyanta iti
tadu ha tanno eva tathā
ukthyo haiva sa saptadaśa syāt
viḍvā ukthyāni
viṭsaptadaśaḥ
viśāmeva yajñaḥ
tasmādukthya eva saptadaśa syāditi
tasya marutāṃ cārko marutāṃ ca saṃstobha ityete ādiṣṭasāmanī pavamānayorbhavataḥ
stomameva tadrūpeṇa samardhayanti

Now some have said: ‘This should just be a five-day rite (Pañcarātra). Right there, day after day, he should sacrifice these animals.’ And regarding this, Udara Śāṇḍilya asked the elder Ekayāvān: ‘As they argue about this—some say it was a five-day rite, others that it was a seventeenfold Ukthya—how was it?’ He said: ‘They made it known to us as an Ukthya, a seventeenfold one-day rite.’ Now some have said: ‘This should just be an Atirātra. How could a sacrifice undertaken for five years not be an Atirātra?’ That, however, is not so. Others say: ‘It should just be an Agniṣṭoma. From the Agniṣṭoma indeed are all sacrificial rites extended.’ That, however, is certainly not so. It should indeed be a seventeenfold Ukthya. The people are the ukthyas. The people are the seventeenfold. It is a sacrifice of the people. Therefore, it should be a seventeenfold Ukthya. Its assigned sāmans in the two pavamāna lauds are the Arka of the Maruts and the Saṃstobha of the Maruts; thereby they make the stoma thrive with its proper form.