Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-8.337

2-8.337

athaiṣa pṛṣṭhyaṣṣaḍaho bhavati
śrīrvai pṛṣṭhāni varṣma vai pṛṣṭhāni
tacchriyaṃ varṣma pṛṣṭhāni rohanti
tadu satriṇo bhavanti
tadāhuragramiva vā ete rohanti ya etaṃ pṛṣṭhyaṃ ṣaḍahamupayantīti
yo vai mahāvṛkṣasyāgraṃ rūḍhvā pratyavaroḍhuṃ na veda bhaṅge vai sa nyetyava vā hi
padyate tadvai vopari śuṣyati
tadyatparastātpratyaṅtryaho bhavati nihnavāyaivānārtyai śivatvāya śāntyai
jyotiṣo'dhyahna uttiṣṭhanti prajñātājjyaiṣṭhyātstomāt
prajñāte jyaiṣṭhye stome pratiṣṭhāyodṛcamaśnavāmahā iti
tasya dvādaśa stotrāṇi bhavanti dvādaśa māsāssaṃvatsaraḥ
saṃvatsaro jyaiṣṭhyaṃ tasya bhrātṛvyo nāstyabhrātṛvye jyaiṣṭhye stome
pratiṣṭhāyodṛcamaśnavāmahā iti
vaiśvānara udayanīyo'tirātro bhavati
vaiśvānarodayanā hyahīnāssomāḥ

Now this six-day Pṛṣṭhya period takes place. The pṛṣṭhas are prosperity, the pṛṣṭhas are the summit. Thus they ascend prosperity, the summit, the pṛṣṭhas. Thus they become session-sacrificers. Regarding this they say: 'Those who undertake this six-day Pṛṣṭhya period ascend as it were to the top.' He who, having climbed to the top of a great tree, does not know how to descend, falls into a break, or indeed falls down, or withers up above. That afterwards there is a reversed three-day period is for concealment, for non-affliction, for auspiciousness, for peace. They rise from the day of light, from the well-known stoma of supremacy, [thinking:] 'Having established ourselves in the well-known stoma of supremacy, may we reach the conclusion.' It has twelve chants; twelve months are the year. The year is supremacy; it has no rival. [They think:] 'Having established ourselves in the rival-less stoma of supremacy, may we reach the conclusion.' The concluding Atirātra is sacred to Vaiśvānara; for ahīna Soma sacrifices have their conclusion sacred to Vaiśvānara.