Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 51.274

51.274

taṃ devebhyaḥ prāyacchat
sa kṣayādvibhyatprādravat
te devā akāmayanta śṛṇuyānna iti
ta etatsāmāpaśyan
tenainaṃ środhiyetyanvahvayan
so'śṛṇot
tamabruvannabhi na āvartasveti
kṣayādvai bibhamīti
netyabruvan
tasmai vai me śraddhāṃ kuruteti
tasmai środhiyetyeva śraddhāmakurvan
tamehyā ityeva nyahvayanta
tato vai tebhyo yajño nodakrāmat
tata evānupāvartata
uktrānta ivaitarhi yajño bhavati navame'han
tadyadatra śrudhīyaṃ bhavati | samevainametena yajñaṃ nihvayante
tasmācchrodhiyetyeva prathamāyāṃ kuryācchrodhemetyuttarayoḥ
atho yasmai jīvātuṃ kāmayeta | tametanaiva nihvayeta

He gave it to the gods. / Fearing exhaustion, it ran away. / The gods desired: "May it listen to us!" / They saw this sāman. / With it they called after it: "Hearken! (środhiya)". / It listened. / They said to it: "Turn back to us!" / "I fear exhaustion," [it said]. / "Do not [fear]," they said. / "Then place your trust (śraddhā) in me," [it said]. / By saying "Hearken!" (środhiya), they placed trust in it. / They summoned it down, saying: "Come here!" (ehyā). / Then the sacrifice did not escape from them; / from there it turned back. / The sacrifice is as if escaped now on the ninth day. / That there is the Śrudhīya here, thereby they summon down the sacrifice together. / Therefore one should chant "środhiya" in the first [verse], and "środhema" in the two following [verses]. / Moreover, for whomever one might desire long life (jīvātu), him one should summon down with this very [sāman].