Jaiminīya Upaniṣad Brāhmaṇa 4.2

Man, indeed, is the sacrifice.

The twenty-four years of his [life] are the morning pressing;
twenty-four-syllabled is the gāyatrī metre;
related to the gāyatrī is the morning pressing.

That belongs to the Vasus.
The vital breaths, indeed, are the Vasus,
for the vital breaths appropriate everything here as wealth.

If disease should assail him at this time, he should say: 'O vital breaths, O Vasus, continue this morning pressing of mine to the midday pressing.'
He indeed becomes free from sickness.

Then the forty-four years are the midday pressing;
forty-four-syllabled is the triṣṭubh metre;
related to the triṣṭubh is the midday pressing.

That belongs to the Rudras.
The vital breaths, indeed, are the Rudras,
for the vital breaths make everything here weep.

If disease should assail him at this time, he should say: 'O vital breaths, O Rudras, continue this midday pressing of mine to the third pressing.'
He indeed becomes free from sickness.

Now, the forty-eight years that follow are the third pressing. The jagatī [metre] has forty-eight syllables; the third pressing belongs to the jagatī.

That belongs to the Ādityas. The breaths indeed are the Ādityas, for the breaths take up (ādadate) all this.

If illness should attack him during this period, let him say: 'O breaths, Ādityas, unite this third pressing of mine with life!' He indeed becomes free from disease.

Knowing this, the brāhmaṇa Mahidāsa Aitareya said when he fell ill: 'Why do you plague me with this illness, when I shall not die of it?' He lived for a hundred and sixteen years. Indeed, he who knows this lives for a hundred and sixteen years; the breath does not leave him midway through his life.
The second anuvāka is completed.