Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths") 4.2.1.7

4.2.1.7

api hovāca yājñavalkyaḥ | no sviddevatābhya eva gṛhṇīyāmā vijitarūpamiva hīdamiti tadvai sa tanmīmāṃsāmeva cakre nettu cakāra

Also Yâgñavalkya said, 'Should we not rather draw them for the deities, since that is, as it were, the sign of conquest?' In this, however, he merely speculated, but he did not practise it.