Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 23.9.7

23.9.7

ayam jāyata manuṣo dharīmaṇi ity ājyam / (soma: pṛṣṭhya sadaha)

xxiii. 6. ‘He is born in the ordinance of Manu’ is the Ājya, with no deity mentioned by name in ‘he’; Prajāpati is he (whose name is) not mentioned; this is a symbol of Prajāpati. They are beyond the normal metres, having seven Padas, and have repeated Padas; in that it is this day, they are thus. He should not draw in breath between the Pada and the repeated Pada; the Pada is the body, the repeated Pada the breaths; if one should say of him who breathes in at this point, ‘He has separated the body from the breath; he will not live’, so would it be. Therefore he should not draw in breath between the Pada and the repeated Pada. The Praüga is in a metre beyond the normal; the sixth day is connected with a metre beyond the normal; verily thus he makes it successful with its own metre. ‘He first of the great’ is the strophe of the Marutvatīya; in ‘he’ no deity is mentioned by name; Prajāpati is he (whose name is) not mentioned; this is a symbol of Prajāpati. ‘The chariot which thou, O Indra, for the