Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths") 5.2.1.2

5.2.1.2

sa juhoti | āpaye svāhā svāpaye svāhāpijāyaṃ svāhā kratave svāhā vasave svāhāharpataye svāhāhne mugdhāya svāhā mugdhāya vainaṃśināya svāhā vinaṃśina āntyāyanāya svāhāntyāya bhauvanāya svāhā bhuvanasya pataye svāhādhipataye svāhetyetā dvādaśāptīrjuhoti dvādaśa vai māsāḥ saṃvatsarasya saṃvatsaraḥ prajāpatiḥ prajāpatiryajñastadyaivāsyāptiryā sampattāmevaitadujjayati tāmātmankurute

He offers, with (Vâg. S. IX, 20), 'To the ally, hail!--To the good ally, hail!--To the after-born, hail!--To the purpose, hail!--To the Vasu, hail!--To the Lord of day, hail!--To the failing day, hail!--To the failing one, sprung from the evanescent, hail!--To the evanescent one, sprung from the terminal, hail!--To the terminal descendant of being, hail!--To the Lord of being, hail!--To the over-lord, hail!' These twelve âptis (obtainments) he offers, because there are twelve months in the year, and Pragâpati is the year, and the sacrifice is Pragâpati: hence whatever obtainment, whatever accomplishment there is for him, that he thereby wins, that he makes his own.