Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 1.124

1.124

By the pavamāna food is presented to the gods. It has its finale in the middle, for distinguishing the food. For if all food were presented to the gods, no food would be left behind here upon which humans and cattle could subsist. That it has its finale in the middle is just for distinguishing the food. The Asuras wished to cause destruction to the gods' sacrifice, at that time during the dakṣiṇās when they neither chant nor recite. The gods noticed that. They saw this sāman. They praised with it. They encompassed the morning pressing with the first finale, the midday [pressing] with the second, and the third pressing with the third. They raised those very thunderbolts. The Asuras did not dare approach those raised thunderbolts. Then indeed the gods thrived; the Asuras were defeated. He thrives in himself, defeated is his spiteful rival, who knows thus. Now that pavamāna is indeed properly arranged on which there are three finales, for the proper arrangement of the pressings.