Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 20.110

20.110

atha mahānāmnayaḥ
prāṇā vā agre sapta
tebhya etāṃ saptapadāṃ śakvarīṃ niramimīta
prāṇāneva sarvamāyureti ya evaṃ veda
saptapadāyai ṣaṭpadāṃ ṣtūnsaṃvatsaram
ṛtubhya ātmānaṃ paridatte ya evaṃ veda
ṣaṭpadāyai pañcapadāṃ paśūnpaṃktim
paśumānbhavati ya evaṃ veda
pañcapadāyai catuṣpadāṃ vācamanuṣṭubhaṃ pratiṣṭhitim
vācā vadati ya evaṃ veda
catuṣpadāyai tripadāṃ tejo brāhmavarcasaṃ gāyatrīm
tejasvī brahmavarcasī bhavati ya evaṃ veda
tripadāyai dvipadāṃ puruṣam
nainaṃ pauruṣo vadho hanti ya evaṃ veda
dvipadāyā ekapadāṃ puruṣameva
anvañcāviva vai puruṣau
tasmātpuruṣaḥ puruṣaṃ parivedeṣṭi | puruṣaḥ puruṣasyānucaro bhavati
vindate'nucaritṝn
bahavo'syānucarā bhavanti | nainaṃ pauruṣyevāvṛttirvindati ya evaṃ veda

Now the Mahānāmnī verses.
The breaths, indeed, were seven in the beginning.
For them he measured out this seven-footed Śakvarī.
He who knows thus reaches the full span of life through the breaths.
From the seven-footed, [he measured out] the six-footed: the seasons, the year.
He who knows thus commits himself to the seasons.
From the six-footed, [he measured out] the five-footed: cattle, the Paṅkti.
He who knows thus becomes rich in cattle.
From the five-footed, [he measured out] the four-footed: speech, the Anuṣṭubh, firm support.
He who knows thus speaks with speech.
From the four-footed, [he measured out] the three-footed: fiery energy, spiritual luster, the Gāyatrī.
He who knows thus becomes endowed with fiery energy and spiritual luster.
From the three-footed, [he measured out] the two-footed: man.
Human slaughter does not slay him who knows thus.
From the two-footed, [he measured out] the one-footed: man indeed.
For two men follow one after the other, as it were.
Therefore man attends upon man; man becomes an attendant of man.
He finds attendants;
many become his attendants; human misfortune does not befall him who knows thus.