Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-8.377

2-8.377

Half-month by half-month they thus attain the year. / And regarding this, some session-performers, having undertaken [this single] day, rose up, saying: 'We have attained the year.' / Those who might be as if beginning every wish, they should rise up having undertaken just this day; / the year becomes attained for them. / Of it there are three hundred and sixty stoma-verses; / so many are the nights of the year; / night by night they thus attain the year. / As to that, they say: 'Since the year-sitters sit pressing [soma] during the days of the year, then by what do they attain the nights?' / He should say: 'As many as are the stoma-verses of the introductory day, so many are the nights of the year; / having attained the nights through the stoma-verses of the introductory day itself, they sit pressing [soma] during the days.' / It is an Ukthya; cattle, indeed, are the ukthas, [and this is] for the securing of cattle. / Of it there are fifteen stotras; / fifteen, indeed, are the nights of a half-month; / half-month by half-month they thus attain the year. / There are thirty chanted and recited hymns; / thirty are the nights of a month; / month by month they thus attain the year.