Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-8.305

2-8.305

Now this is the Babara seven-day rite.
Its first day is seventeenfold; then the ninefold; then the fifteenfold; then the twenty-onefold; then the twenty-sevenfold; then the thirty-threefold; the Jyotir-Atirātra.
With this he sacrificed, desiring fortune, desiring food.
"The pṛṣṭhya six-day period is the body," [he thought].
"The ninefold is the mouth; the seventeenfold is food.
I shall place food right at the beginning, in the mouth; so I shall be an eater of food, the foremost among my own people," [he thought].
"Moreover, the pṛṣṭhya six-day period is indeed the year; therefore food, obtained in front of the year, will be at my disposal," [he thought].
The Jyotir-Atirātra [is the final day].
This is indeed the known ford of the gods, namely the Jyotir-Atirātra.
"By the known ford of the gods, unharmed, I shall unharmed reach the completion," [he thought]. To him, his own pupil prophesied: