Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-5.192

This is an abundant sacrifice. Prajāpati is abundant. This sacrifice belongs to Prajāpati, for obtaining Prajāpati. His [sāman] is the Bṛhat on verses containing [the word] śipiviṣṭa. Cattle are śipiviṣṭa. The Bṛhat is the ruling power. And this world belongs to the ruler (kṣatriya). [He thinks:] 'May the cattle of this sāman, possessed of this world, follow in this world for us.' They praise the Bṛhat sāman on Triṣṭubh verses. The Triṣṭubh is the ruling power. [He thinks:] 'Being anointed, let him be anointed with the ruling power.' They praise on verses to Viṣṇu. Viṣṇu is the supreme of the deities. [He thinks:] 'Being anointed, let him be anointed with the supreme deity.' They run a race for obtaining Prajāpati and for winning the heavenly world. They run seventeen arrow-shots. Prajāpati is seventeenfold. This sacrifice belongs to Prajāpati, for obtaining Prajāpati.

Regarding this they say: 'They should run while [the sāman] is being chanted on only three [verses].'

Three are the out-breath, the in-breath, and the inter-breath,

for their continuity, for non-interruption.

And they also say: 'They should run while it is being chanted on only one [verse].'

For what is this, namely, out-breath, in-breath, and inter-breath?

And they also say: 'They should run while it is being chanted on all [the verses], so that these two races do not mingle.'

Regarding this they say: 'They indeed go away from the sacrifice who cause [chariots] to run outside the vedi while the soma is being pressed.'

As great as is within the vedi, so great is the sacrifice.

'They should cause [them] to run only up to the edge of the vedi.'

And they also say: 'Having placed a foot on the lap of the chariot itself, he should take it back.'

'That is both run and not run.'

And they also say: 'They should indeed cause [them] to run.'

By the Rathantara one wins the divine race, by the chariot the human [race].

'Therefore, they should indeed cause [them] to run for the winning of these two races.'

The Brahman priest, sitting on a chariot wheel, sings the sāman: 'The prize-winners have attained the prize (vāja)!'

[That means:] 'Those prize-winners have attained the prize.'

Food is immortal, food is vāja, for obtaining proper food.

He sings while [the wheel] is turning.