Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-7.273

Its Bahiṣpavamāna is on four [verses]. Horses are four-footed, being four-hoofed. Whatever animals are four-footed and four-hoofed, those he secures by this. The Ājya-stotras are on eight each. Animals are eight-hoofed. Whatever animals are eight-hoofed, those he secures by this. The midday [stoma] is twelvefold. The Jagatī has twelve syllables; cattle are the Jagatī; what is small among cattle is related to the Jagatī; that he secures by this. The Ārbhava-pavamāna is twentyfold. These two Virājs of ten each are what twenty is. Animals related to the Virāj have twenty supports. Whatever animals have twenty supports and belong to the Virāj, those he secures by this. Then the twenty-fourfold Agniṣṭoma-sāman. Animals related to the Virāj are four-footed. Whatever animals are four-footed and belong to the Virāj, those he secures by this. Moreover, the year has twenty-four half-months; through the year alone he... that—

having enclosed it, they slaughter [them] on this second day.

This second day is twenty-onefold, having a single stoma.

Twelve are the months, five the seasons, three these worlds; yonder Āditya is the twenty-first.

Just as a firm post is driven down, so is the twenty-onefold among stomas.

On it they slaughter these animals: the elephant highest, the flea lowest.

Having carried fire around them, they slaughter some and release others.

Its pṛṣṭha is the Mahānāmnī verses.

For no pṛṣṭha other than the Mahānāmnī verses is able to support these animals.

They consist of seven padas; seven indeed are domestic animals, for the securing of domestic animals.

There is a verse extending beyond the seventh pada, for the securing of wild animals.