Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 58.339

58.339

prajāpatirvāvedamagra āsīt
so'kāmayata bahu syāṃ prajāyeya bhūmānaṃ gaccheyamiti
sa tapo'tapyata
sa etaṃ vyūḍhachandasaṃ dvādaśāhaṃ yajñamapaśyat
tamāharat
tenāyajata
taṃ vyauhat
yadvyauhadaṅgānyeva tadvyauhat
tasya yāni śarīrāṇyāsaṃstā evemā martyaḥ prajā abhavan
athātmā manomayassamabhavat
tasya manaśśarīraṃ prāṇā abhi samaviśan
sa vyūḍha ivāsīt
sa devānabravītśarīraṃ ma icchateti
kathaṃ ta icchāma iti
samūḍhachandasā dvādaśāhena yājayateti
tatheti
taṃ samūḍhachandasā dvādaśāhanāyājayan
tadyatsamauhannaṃgānyevāsya tatsamauhan

Prajāpati alone was here in the beginning. He desired: 'May I be more; may I reproduce; may I attain abundance.' He practiced tapas. He saw this sacrifice, the twelve-day rite with disarranged meters. He brought it forth. He sacrificed with it. He shifted it apart. In that he shifted it apart, he shifted apart his own limbs. The bodies that he had, they became these mortal creatures. Then his self became composed of mind. Mind having become his body, the breaths entered into it. He was as if shifted apart. He said to the gods: 'Seek a body for me.' 'How shall we seek it for you?' 'Sacrifice for me with the twelve-day rite with arranged meters.' 'So be it.' They sacrificed for him with the twelve-day rite with arranged meters. In that they shifted it together, they shifted his limbs back together.