Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-8.350

2-8.350

athaitāssaṃsado bhavanti
etaddha vai saṃsadāṃ saṃsattvaṃ yadete stomāśca chandāṃsi ca madhyataḥ saṃsannāḥ
stomāśca ha khalu vai chandāṃsi ca sarvā devatāḥ
devā vai mṛtyorabibhayurya svarge loke
tasmātte prajāpatimevopādhāvan
tānprajāpatirabravīnmā bibhīta
ahaṃ vastaṃ mṛtyumatineṣyāmi ya svarge loka iti
tānpṛṣṭhye ṣaḍahe samasādayat
ṛtavo vai pṛṣṭhāni
saṃvatsara ṛtavaḥ
saṃvatsaro mṛtyuḥ
mṛtyorvāvaināṃstatpṛṣṭhe pratiṣṭhitassamasādayat
tānetenāniruktena trayastriṃśenātyanayat
sa ṣakṣata māniruktā bhūvanniti
tānniruktena nirabravīt
te stomāṃśca chandāṃsi cākramamāṇā āyan
mṛtyorvāva te tatpadayopanaṃ kurvanta īyustadyadete stomāśca chandāṃsi ca madhyato
viṣvañco bhavanti

Now, these are the Saṃsads. This indeed is the 'sitting-together-ness' of the Saṃsads: that these stomas and meters sit together in the middle. The stomas and the meters, indeed, are all the deities. The gods were afraid of Death who is in the heavenly world. Therefore they ran to Prajāpati. Prajāpati said to them: 'Do not fear. I will lead you beyond that Death who is in the heavenly world.' He seated them in the pṛṣṭha-bearing six-day period. The pṛṣṭhas are the seasons; the seasons are the year; the year is Death. Established on the back of Death, he seated them. By means of this unexpressed thirty-three-fold [stoma], he led them across. He perceived: 'Let them not become unexpressed.' He explicitly declared them with the expressed [stoma]. They went forward, stepping upon the stomas and meters. Indeed, they went effacing the track of Death; in that these stomas and meters are turned in different directions in the middle,