Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 32.194

Wherever the gods found the sap of the meters, they made it repeated-struck; they struck it again. Drained, as it were, are these chandomas which have the third pressing as their seat; drained, as it were, is the third pressing. Therefore, in that the meter is repeated-struck, they place sap in the chandomas; this is the finding of sap. And it is composed in the Kakubh meter, ending in a svara. The svara is breath, the Kakubh of meters is man. Primacy is breath, primacy is man. Through primacy he joins primacy; through primacy he establishes himself. And because Śarkara the dolphin saw it, therefore it is called Śārkara. 'Friends, sit down; sing forth to the purifying one'—they contain [the preverb] 'pra' (pravat); thus they enter upon the form of the introductory rite, for this day is introductory. 'Adorn him with sacrifices, like a child, for glory'—thus they enter upon the form of cattle; a child belongs to cattle.

On them [is sung] the Plava.

Whoever indeed swims across the ocean without a boat does not attain the other side; but whoever swims across possessing a boat, he

attains [the other side].

The Chandoma days, indeed, are an ocean.

Therefore, that there is the Plava [sāman], by this they indeed become possessors of a boat.

The gods, desiring the heavenly world, performed austerities.

They saw this sāman.

With it they praised.

It, having become a boat, carried them to the heavenly world.

Having reached the heavenly world, they said: 'Having indeed become a boat for us, this sāman has conveyed [us] to the heavenly

world.'

That indeed is the boat-nature of the Plava.

It is this heavenly sāman.

He who knows this attains the heavenly world.

They also call it the Plava of Vasiṣṭha.

Vasiṣṭha desired: 'May I sail across all these worlds in safety.'

He saw this sāman.

With it he praised.

Then indeed he sailed across all these worlds in safety.

That also is the boat-nature of the Plava.

He who knows this sails across all these worlds in safety.