Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths") 5.3.5.19

5.3.5.19

tā eteṣu pātreṣu vyānayati | sadhamādo dyumninīrāpa etā ityanatimāninya ityevaitadāha yadāha sadhamāda iti dyumninīrāpa etā iti vīryavatya ityevaitadāhānādhṛṣṭā apasyo vasānā ityanādhṛṣṭā stha rakṣobhirityevaitadāha yadāhānādhṛṣṭā apasyo vasānā iti pastyāsu cakre varuṇaḥ sadhasthamiti viśo vai pastyā vikṣu cakre varuṇaḥ pratiṣṭhāmityevaitadāhāpāṃ śiśurmātṛtamāsvantariti

He distributes them over those (consecration) vessels, with (Vâg. S. X, 7), 'Playmates are these glorious waters;'--'not overbearing' he means to say, when he says 'playmates;' and by 'these glorious waters' he means to say 'the powerful ones;'--'unimpaired, active, enveloping,' he thereby means to say 'ye are unimpaired by the Rakshas;'--'In the habitations Varuna hath made a home;'--the habitations are the people (clans): 'in the people Varuna has made a support' he thereby says;--'he, the child of the waters, in the best of mothers;'--for he who performs the Râgasûya is indeed the child of the waters: therefore he says, 'the child of the waters, in the best of mothers.'