Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 25.2.25

25.2.25

tad āhur na traiṣṭubham prātaḥ savanam syān mohayati klṛptac chandaso yajña mukham iti / (soma: viṣuvat)

xxv. 3. They say ‘The morning pressing should not be in Triṣṭubh; he disturbs the beginning of the sacrifice from its appointed metre; let it be the one-day (form) only’. The one-day (rite) is light; he who here gives heat is light; verily thus they cause light to prosper with light. ‘Forward to the god, to Agni’ and ‘Thou hast glory of rule’, these two are the Ājya. These (verses) recited together make up twenty-one Anuṣṭubhs; the explanation of these has been given. The Praüga is by Madhuchandas; the explanation of this has been given. ‘Thee like a car for aid’ is the strophe of the Marutvatīya; ‘This drink, O bright one, is pressed’ is the antistrophe; this is the normal one-day form; the explanation of this has been given. ‘With what array, of one age, of one home?’ is the Marutvatīya, with the symbol (of this day) in ‘brightness’ in ‘array’ (_çubhā_). ‘That ram that winneth the light I glorify’ is in Jagatī, containing (the word) ‘sun’ in ‘Thou didst support the sun in the sky to see’; this is a symbol of this day. ‘Thou hast been born dread for impetuous strength,’ in this Triṣṭubh (hymn) he inserts a Nivid. (The hymn has) the symbol (of this day) in ‘Dispel the darkness, fill full our vision’. Two sets, Triṣṭubhs and Jagatīs, are recited, for the sun here gives heat, resting on the Triṣṭubh and the Jagatī; thus openly they obtain it.