Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 16.4.9

16.4.9

asya eva sarvasya āptyai /

parts; verily (it serves) to obtain all this. It is seventeenfold; eleven deities, four Nivids, the strength of the litany, and the offering verse; Prajāpati is seventeenfold; that rite is beneficial which is commensurate with Prajāpati. Having recited the litany, he says an offering verse for the All-gods, ‘O All-gods, hearken to this my call’, for the litany is for the All-gods; containing (the words) ‘be drunk’, for the third pressing is connected with ‘be drunk’; in Triṣṭubh metre; the Triṣṭubh is might and strength; verily thus he places might and strength in the sacrificer. He says the second vaṣaṭ, for the healing of the libations, for the support of the libations. The first Anuṣṭubh yonder is speech; five Gāyatrī verses follow the Anuṣṭubh; (the hymn) to Savitṛ is mind; (the verse) to Vāyu is breath; (the hymn) to earth and sky is the eyes; there is the breath here which is not distinct in (the verse), ‘Maker of fair forms’; (the hymn) to the Ṛbhus is the ear; the three isolated verses are expiration, inspiration, and cross-breathing; the hymn is the body; the Nivid what is within the body; the concluding verse a support; the offering verse is food. They say ‘Why are the holy power and the lordly power unstable, the subjects stable’. ‘The morning pressing is the holy power, the midday pressing the lordly power, the third pressing is the subjects; in that at the morning pressing and the midday pressing he concludes just as it may occur, therefore the Brahmans rule the people insecurely, insecurely also the Kṣatriyas; in that the concluding verse of the third pressing is stable, therefore are the subjects stable’ (is the reply).