Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 58.330

[The words] eti ('goes'), preti ('goes forth'), having āśu ('swift'), having vīti ('feast'), having rukma ('gold ornament'), having tejovant ('brilliant'), yuñjāna ('yoking') are the mark of the first day, of the trivṛt stoma, of the gāyatrī meter, of the rathantara sāman. Having vṛṣan ('bull'), having vṛtrahan ('Vṛtra-slayer'), having rayi ('wealth'), having viśva ('all'), upasthita ('approached') are the mark of the second day, of the fifteenfold stoma, of the triṣṭubh meter, of the bṛhat sāman. Having ud- ('upwards'), having tri- ('three'), having diś ('quarter'), having gata ('gone'), having purāṇa ('ancient') are the mark of the third day, of the seventeenfold stoma, of the jagatī meter, of the vairūpa sāman. Having rājan ('king'), having janatā ('people'), virāj, having sūrya ('sun') are the mark of the fourth day, of the twenty-onefold stoma, of the anuṣṭubh meter, of the vairāja sāman. Having citra ('wondrous'), having śiśu ('young one'), the paṅktis and śakvarīs having deficient syllables, having cows, having a bull, having a thunderbolt, having abhimat ('hostility') are the mark of the fifth day, of the twenty-sevenfold stoma, of the paṅkti meter, of the śākvara sāman. Having pari- ('around'), having prati- ('against'), the seven-footed, the two-footed, without nārāśaṃsa, having cows, having a bull, having a thunderbolt, having abhimat ('hostility') are the mark of the sixth day, of the thirty-threefold stoma, of the aticchandas meter, of the raivata sāman.

Because this case-inflection of the six-day rite, being identical, is yet varied,

therefore the year has diverse forms, and [offspring] is born after it with diverse forms.

"O Agni" (agna) is the case-form of the first day; "Agni" (agnim, accusative) of the second; "by Agni" (agninā) of the

third; "Agni" (agniḥ, nominative) of the fourth; "of Agni" (agneḥ) of the fifth; and "O Agni" (agne) again of the sixth.

These two join the two ends together.