Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 58.324

58.324

tasmai trivṛtpañcadaśāvita stomau baliṃ kuruta | ekaviṃśastriṇavastrayastriṃśaḥ
parastāt
tāmabravītsaṃbhavaṃ chandāṃsi tvaṃ prajanayatāt | stomānahaṃ prajanayiṣyāmīti
so'yaṃ trivṛtstomaścatuṣṭomaṃ caturdaśaṃ ṣoḍaśamaṣṭādaśaṃ navadaśaṃ pañcaviṃśaṃ
ṣaṭtriṃśamityetānmṛgastomānprājanayat
atha gāyatrī ekapadāṃ dvipadāmakṣarapaṃktiṃ viṣṭārapaṃktiṃ
virājamaticchandasamamitaṃ chanda ityetāni mṛgacchandasāni prāyāyata
saiṣā stomānāṃ ca chandasāṃ ca prajāpatiḥ
taddha śaunakaṃ kāpeyaṃ caikatāneyaḥ papraccha yatṣaḍuttareṇa vai stomāḥ prajanayanti
caturuttareṇa chandāṃsy | atha kau'yamaṣaḍuttarī stomassaptadaśa ākṣissanmadhye
vyavahita iti
sa hovāca stomāśca chandāṃsi ca yanna prajāyanta sa evaiṣa prajāpatissaptadaśo
madhye vyavakramya prajanayannatiṣṭhat
sa yo vā etamākṣitaṃ vedākṣidvai sa sarvatraiva bhavati
anākṣidvā eṣa yatprajāpatiḥ
sarvaṃ hīdaṃ prājāpatyamiti
te haita ākṣita iva caikitāneyāḥ
tānīmāni chandāṃsi stomairakalpanta

To him the two stomas, the Trivṛt and the Pañcadaśa, pay tribute from this side; the Ekaviṃśa, the Triṇava, and the Trayastriṃśa from beyond. He said to her, 'Copulate! Do you bring forth the meters; I shall bring forth the stomas.' That very Trivṛt stoma brought forth these mṛga-stomas: the Catuṣṭoma, the Caturdaśa, the Ṣoḍaśa, the Aṣṭādaśa, the Navadaśa, the Pañcaviṃśa, and the Ṣaṭtriṃśa. Then the Gāyatrī brought forth these mṛga-meters: the Ekapadā, the Dvipadā, the Akṣarapaṅkti, the Viṣṭārapaṅkti, the Virāj, the Aticchandas, and the boundless meter. She is this Prajāpati of the stomas and of the meters. About that, Caikitāneya asked Śaunaka Kāpeya: 'Given that the stomas generate by an increase of six, and the meters by an increase of four, who then is this seventeenfold stoma that does not increase by six, dwelling in the middle, placed between?' He said, 'When the stomas and meters were not generating, that very Prajāpati, as the seventeenfold, stepped into the middle and stood generating. Whoever knows him as the dweller, he indeed becomes a dweller everywhere. Indeed, this Prajāpati is not a non-dweller, for everything here belongs to Prajāpati.' These Caikitāneyas are indeed as though dwelling. These meters were fashioned with the stomas: