Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 17.p4

17.p4

of the bay steeds’ these (verses) have twenty-five syllables and one by one have nine syllables added. The self is twenty-fivefold, what is added is offspring and cattle; verily thus he adds to himself in offspring, cattle, servants, and proper food. These make up thirty-four; whatever is of thirty-four syllables, that metre is the Svarāj; verily thereby he obtains self rule. Repeated together they make up five Anuṣṭubh verses and a ten-syllable quarter verse is left over, two syllables for each verse. ‘Of such a one as thou, O thou of much light’, this Gāyatrī verse he recites next, for the completion of these syllables; moreover along with it they make up a strophe of six Anuṣṭubh verses; therefore he recites it, for completion. To match it some make an antistrophe; but as to this they say ‘The Ṣoḍaçin is he yonder that gives heat; there is none other to be a counterpart of him; if he were to make a counterpart and one were to say of him, “The rival who is hateful will reject him”, so would it be. Therefore he should not trouble about a counterpart.’