Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2.237

2.237

In the beginning, this [universe] was waters, a great flood. The sovereignty belonged to the waters alone. Agni contemplated that sovereignty of the waters, the kingship of the waters, the food of the waters: 'May this sovereignty be mine, this kingship mine, this food mine!' He perceived this correspondence of the Agniṣṭoma. By it he drove apart these waters, upward and downward. Chanting day after day this very stoma, he made this entire food his own. With nine twenty-one-fold [stomas] he propped up those upper [waters]. He moved them beyond the sky. These, moved away, remain raining according to the seasons. With twenty-one three-fold [stomas] he stood upon these lower [waters]. He moved them beyond the earth; having dug along these [waters] that were moved away, some subsist on them—