Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths") 5.3.4.21

5.3.4.21

atha marīcīḥ | añjalinā saṃgṛhyāpisṛjatyāpaḥ svarāja stha rāṣṭradā rāṣṭramamuṣmai dattetyetā vā āpaḥ svarājo yanmarīcayastā yatsyandanta ivānyo 'nyasyā evaitacriyā atiṣṭhamānā uttarādharā iva bhavantyo yanti svārājyamevāsminnetaddadhātyetā vā ekā āpastā evaitatsambharati

Having then caught up (moist) sun-motes with the hollow of his hands, he mixes them (with the other kinds of water), with, 'Self-ruling waters ye are, bestowers of kingship: bestow ye kingship on N.N.!' For those sun-motes are indeed self-ruling waters, since they are flowing, as it were, and, not yielding to one another's superiority, keep being now higher now lower: he thus thereby bestows self-ruling power upon him. This is one kind of water: it is that he now brings.