Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths") 5.1.2.12

5.1.2.12

atha yatsaptadaśa | surāgrahāngṛhṇāti saptadaśo vai prajāpatiḥ prajāpatiryajñaḥ sa yāvāneva yajño yāvatyasya mātrā tāvataivāsyaitadanṛtam pāpmānaṃ tama ujjayati

And why he draws seventeen cups of Surâ;--Pragâpati is seventeenfold, Pragâpati is the sacrifice: as great as the sacrifice is, as great as is its measure, with that much he thus wins its untruth, its misery, its darkness.