Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 25.1.11

25.1.11

samudrād ūrmir madhumān udārad ity ājyam /

conceived; thence was this sun born on the sixth month; therefore on the sixth month the performers of a session perform the Divākīrtya. It goes north for six months, then for six reversed; therefore the performers go for six months forward, then for six months reversed. Without it are hunger and repeated death; they conquer hunger and repeated death who perform the Viṣuvant day. It has these symbols in its verses: (the word) ‘sun’, (the word) ‘blaze’, (the word) ‘light’, (the word) ‘ornament’, (the word) ‘shine’, (the word) ‘delight’. ‘From the ocean the wave rich in sweetness hath arisen’ is the Ājya; for from the ocean, from the waters he comes out. It contains (the word) ‘sun’ in ‘Indra one, the sun one hath produced’; this is a symbol of this day. These (verses) recited together make up twenty-one Anuṣṭubhs; he who gives heat here is twenty-onefold; thus he makes it successful with its own symbol. The Praüga is in Triṣṭubh; this is the middle of the days; the Triṣṭubh is the middle of metres. Thus he makes it successful with its own metre.