Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 1.35

1.35

He offers [for] eleven days.
Forty-four oblations are made up.
The triṣṭubh indeed has forty-four syllables.
The Rudras are forty-four gods.
They are attached to the triṣṭubh.
For those Rudra gods, the triṣṭubh yields desires, whatever they desire, syllable by syllable.
In the same way it yields [them] for him who offers.
He wins the triṣṭubh among meters, the Rudras among the gods.
He ascends to union, to sharing the same world, with the Rudra gods—he who, knowing thus, offers the fire-offering.