Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths") 6.7.3.6

6.7.3.6

agne 'bhyāvartin | abhi mā nivartasvāgne aṅgiraḥ punarūrjā saha rayyetyetena mā sarveṇābhinivartasvetyetaccatuṣkṛtvaḥ pratyavarohati caturhi kṛtva ūrdhvo rohati tadyāvatkṛtva ūrdhvo rohati tāvatkṛtvaḥ pratyavarohati tamupāvahṛtyoparinābhi dhārayati tasyokto bandhuḥ

[Vâg. S. XII, 7-10] 'Ever returning Agni, turn thou back unto me, with life, with vigour, with offspring, with riches; with gain, with wisdom, with wealth, with prosperity!--O Agni, Aṅgiras! may thine be a hundred courses, and a thousand returns: with increase of increase bring back what was lost by us, and bring us again riches!--Return again with sustenance, again, O Agni, with food and life, guard us again from trouble!--With wealth return, O Agni, overflow with the all-feeding stream on every side!'--that is, 'with all this return thou to me!' Four times he lowers (the fire further and further), for four times it rises upwards: thus as often as it rises upwards, so often he lowers it; and having lowered it (completely), he holds it above his navel: the significance of this has been explained.