Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-8.322

2-8.322

athaite daśarātrāḥ
abhicaryamāṇo haitena yajeta yaddaśarātraḥ
daśaitānyahāni bhavanti
daśa puruṣe prāṇāḥ
ahnaiva prāṇaṃ parigṛhṇīte'hnā prāṇamahnā prāṇaṃ na tatastasya sa prāṇo'tiśaye
yamasyābhicaraṃsstṛṇvīta
atho āhurabhicarannevainena yajeteti
daśaitānyahāni bhavanti
daśa puruṣe prāṇāḥ
ahnaiva parasya prāṇaṃ stṛṇute'hnā prāṇamahnā prāṇam
na tataḥ parasya sa prāṇaḥ pariśiṣyate yenābhicaryamāṇo jīvet
etaddha vai jyaiṣṭhyaṃ karmaṇāṃ yadeṣa saumyo'dhvaro daśarātro vidhayā vidhīyate
tadyajjyaiṣṭhyaṃ karmaṇāṃ tena no yajño vihito'saditi

Now these are the ten-day rites (daśarātra). One who is being practiced against with sorcery should sacrifice with this which is a ten-day rite. These days are ten; there are ten breaths in a man. Day by day he encloses a breath: with a day a breath, with a day a breath. Not from there does that breath of his surpass [him], which one practicing sorcery against him might strike down. But they say: 'One practicing sorcery should sacrifice with it.' These days are ten; there are ten breaths in a man. Day by day he strikes down the breath of the other: with a day a breath, with a day a breath. Not from there is that breath of the other left over, by which he, being practiced against with sorcery, might live. For this is indeed the preeminence among ritual acts: that this Soma sacrifice, the ten-day rite, is arranged according to a disposition, [thinking], 'By that which is preeminent among ritual acts, let our sacrifice be arranged.'