Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths") 1.3.2.12

1.3.2.12

sa yaccaturjuhvāṃ gṛhṇāti | attāramevaitatparimitataraṃ kanīyāṃsaṃ karotyatha yadaṣṭau kṛtva upabhṛti gṛhṇātyādyamevaitadaparimitataram bhūyāṃsaṃ karoti taddhi samṛddhaṃ yatrāttā kanīyānādyo bhūyān

Now when he takes four times (butter) in the guhû, he thereby makes the eater more limited, smaller; and when he takes eight times in the upabhrit, he makes that which is to be eaten more unlimited, more abundant: for a flourishing condition indeed exists where the eater is smaller and that which is to be eaten more abundant.