Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 25.6.13

25.6.13

jāgato vā eṣa ya eṣa tapati /

gives heat is connected with the Jagatī, the difficult mounting is the sacrificers; verily thus the sacrificers mount him. By Padas he mounts first; thus they obtain this world; by half verses for the second time; thus they obtain the world of the atmosphere; by three Padas for the third time; thus they obtain yonder world; the entrance is by performance as one unit; then by three Padas, by half verses, by Padas (he descends); thus he rests in this world, on a support immovable. This difficult mounting verse being recited together makes up seven. These are thirty-eight in all. ‘For his full oblations’, (these) are six (verses) in Jagatī, containing (the word) ‘sun’ in ‘Indra it waiteth on as the sun on the dawn’; this is a symbol of this day. These make up forty-four. ‘The bird anointed by the craft of the Asura’, (these) are three (verses), with the symbol (of this day) in ‘This radiant sun-like prayer’. These are forty-seven. With the concluding verse thrice repeated, ‘Lead us to a wide space, wise one’, with the symbol (of this day) in ‘The heaven, the light, freedom from danger’, they make up fifty. Those preceding are fifty-one; they make up a hundred and one verses; man has a hundred (years of life), a hundred forms, a hundred strengths, a hundred powers; the hundred and first verse over is the world of the sacrificer; thus here they make ready the sacrificers; thus here having made ready the sacrificers at the beginning, he propagates them with the Mahāvrata day. So the total as made up by Paiṅgya.

xxv. 7. 'I shall proclaim at the great assembly thy two bays', having recited nine verses of this (hymn) and having uttered the call, he inserts a Nivid. It contains (the word) 'sun' in 'Reveal to the bright one, the sun'; this is a symbol of this day. He then recites four verses of the 'All-bay' hymn. 'May the true one come hither, the generous, he of the Soma lees' has twenty-one verses, with the symbol (of this day) in 'What time at the dawn they made to shine the great light.' These make up twenty-five. 'To the all conquering, the booty conquering, the light conquering' is six Jagatī verses, with the symbol (of this day) in 'To Indra the Soma, to him worthy of sacrifice the delightful.' These make up thirty-one. In these Jagatīs he performs the difficult mounting; he who here