Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths") 8.4.2.5

8.4.2.5

nṛcakṣasām bhāgo 'si | dhāturādhipatyamiti devā vai nṛcakṣaso devebhyo bhāgaṃ kṛtvā dhātra ādhipatyamakarojjanitraṃ spṛtaṃ saptadaśa stoma iti viḍvai janitraṃ viśam prajānāṃ saptadaśena stomena pāpmano mṛtyoraspṛṇot

'The man-viewers’ share thou art, the creator's lordship!'--the man-viewers, doubtless, are the gods: having bestowed a share on the gods, he bestowed lordship on the creator;--'the birthplace is freed, the Saptadasa-stoma!'--the birthplace, doubtless, is the peasantry: by means of the seventeenfold hymn-form he frees the peasantry for living beings from evil, from death.