Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-8.377

2-8.377

ardhamāsaśa eva tatsaṃvatsaramāpnuvanti
etadu ha vā eke satriṇo'harupetyottasthurāpāma saṃvatsaramiti vadantaḥ
te ye kāmaṃkāmaṃ samārebhāṇā iva syusta etadevāharupetyotiṣṭheyuḥ
āpto haiṣāṃ saṃvatsaro bhavati
tasya trīṇi ca śatāni stotriyā bhavanti ṣaṣṭiśca
tāvatīssaṃvatsarasya rātrayaḥ
rātriśa eva tatsaṃvatsaramāpnuvanti
tadāhuryatsaṃvatsarasadassaṃvatsarasyāhāni sunvanta āsate'tha kena
rātrīrāpnuvantīti
sa brūyādyāvatīḥ prāyaṇīyasyāhna stotryāstāvatīssaṃvatsarasya rātrayaḥ
prāyaṇīyasyāhna eva stotryābhī rātrīrāptvā ahāni sunvanta āsata iti
tadukthyaṃ bhavati paśavo vā ukthāni paśūnāmevāvaruddhyai
tasya pañcadaśa stotrāṇi bhavanti
pañcadaśa vā ardhamāsasya rātrayaḥ
ardhamāsaśa eva tatsaṃvatsaramāpnuvanti
triṃśatstutaśastrāṇi bhavanti
triṃśanmāsasya rātrayaḥ
māsaśa eva tatsaṃvatsaramāpnuvanti

Half-month by half-month they thus attain the year. / And regarding this, some session-performers, having undertaken [this single] day, rose up, saying: 'We have attained the year.' / Those who might be as if beginning every wish, they should rise up having undertaken just this day; / the year becomes attained for them. / Of it there are three hundred and sixty stoma-verses; / so many are the nights of the year; / night by night they thus attain the year. / As to that, they say: 'Since the year-sitters sit pressing [soma] during the days of the year, then by what do they attain the nights?' / He should say: 'As many as are the stoma-verses of the introductory day, so many are the nights of the year; / having attained the nights through the stoma-verses of the introductory day itself, they sit pressing [soma] during the days.' / It is an Ukthya; cattle, indeed, are the ukthas, [and this is] for the securing of cattle. / Of it there are fifteen stotras; / fifteen, indeed, are the nights of a half-month; / half-month by half-month they thus attain the year. / There are thirty chanted and recited hymns; / thirty are the nights of a month; / month by month they thus attain the year.