Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 22.5.46

22.5.46

yad etad bhūtam iva abhi / (soma: pṛṣṭhya sadaha)

a hundred earths also'; the third day is the end; having gone to the end, he repeats (as it were); for hence whitherward should he go? 'O Indra, as many as thou' is the antistrophe; there is repetition in 'Day by day would I obey the mighty'; the third day is the end; having gone to the end, he repeats as it were, for hence whitherward should he go? 'O Indra, threefold protection' is the Pragātha of the Sāman, containing in 'three-fold' (the word) 'three'; this is a symbol of the third day. 'I was the first lord of wealth' is (the hymn) to Indra; in 'I' and 'I' it has the same beginning; just as that which has the same ending, so that which has the same beginning is a symbol of the end. In the Triṣṭubh (hymn), 'He who is born the first, the wise,' he inserts a Nivid. That hymn is the body of Indra. 'Placing in it a Nivid, Gṛtsamada Bhārgava went to the dear abode of Indra' (they say). He goes to the dear abode of Indra, he conquers the other world, who places a Nivid in this hymn. It contains a symbol of ending in the reference to what has been; 'He who in secret hath depressed the hostile colour' is about what has been as it were. It has the same ending; this is a second symbol of the end.