Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 7.27

7.27

tāsu mādhucchandasam
madhucchandā vai vaiśvāmitro'kāmayatāgryo mukhyo brahmavarcasī syāmiti
sa etatsāmāpaśyat
tenāstuta
tato vai so'gryo mukhyo brahmavarcasyabhavat
agryā mukhyā brahmavarcasino'sāmeti satramāsate
agryā eva mukhyā brahmavarcasino bhavanti
yadu madhucchandā vaiśvāmitro'paśyattasmānmādhucchandasamityākhyāyate
tadaiḷamacchāvākasāma bhavati
paśavo vā iḷā
paśuṣvevaitatpratitiṣṭhanti

Upon them [is sung] the Mādhucchandasa.
Madhucchandas Vaiśvāmitra desired: "May I become foremost, preeminent, endowed with spiritual luster!"
He saw this sāman.
He praised with it.
Then indeed he became foremost, preeminent, endowed with spiritual luster.
"May we be foremost, preeminent, endowed with spiritual luster," [thinking] thus they sit for a sacrificial session.
Foremost indeed, preeminent, endowed with spiritual luster they become.
And because Madhucchandas Vaiśvāmitra saw [it], therefore it is named Mādhucchandasa.
This is the sāman of the Acchāvāka having iḷā.
Cattle are indeed iḷā.
In cattle they thus establish themselves.

7.27.p1

yaste mado vareṇya
ityārbhavasya pavamānasya madvatīrgāyatryo bhavanti
raso vai madaḥ
dhītamivaitadyattṛtīyaṃ savanam
tadyadetā madvatīrbhavanti rasamevāsminnetaddadhatyaivainadetena pyāyayanti
tenā pavasvāndhasetyandhasvatīrbhavantyannaṃ vā andho'nnādyasyaivāvaruddhyai
jaghnirvṛtramamitriyam
iti traiṣṭubhaṃ rūpam
yadvai ghnadvattattriṣṭubho rūpam
kṣatraṃ hi triṣṭup
saṃmiślo aruṣo bhuvassūpasthābhirna dhenubhir

"That exhilarating drink of thine, which is choice..."
—thus for the Ārbhava Pavamāna[-stotra] the gāyatrī verses contain [the word] "exhilarating drink" (madvat).
Sap indeed is exhilarating drink.
Exhausted as it were is this third pressing.
Now, because these verses contain [the word] "exhilarating drink", they thus place sap in it; they swell it with this.
"With that, purify yourself as drink!"—thus they contain [the word] "drink" (andhasvat); food is indeed drink, for the attainment of food.
"Slayer of the hostile Vṛtra..."
—this is the form of the triṣṭubh.
For that which contains [the act of] slaying is the form of the triṣṭubh.
For the triṣṭubh is royal power.
"Associated, he became the ruddy one, with well-yielding cows..."
—rushing forth as it were from here is this day, because it is in bṛhatī form.
For yonder is the Bṛhat.
Now, in that it says "with well-yielding cows", it is for the approach (upasthiti) of the day itself.

7.27.p2

iti pradrutamiva vā ita etadaharyadbārhatam ado hi bṛhat tadyatsūpasthābhirityahna evopasthityai tāsu gāyatramuktabrāhmaṇam