Atharva Veda 19.53

Praise of time (kālá)

Time (kālá) drives (vah) [as] a horse with seven reins, thousand-eyed, unaging, possessing much seed; him the inspired poets mount; his wheels are all beings (bhúvana).

Seven wheels doth this time drive; seven [are] his naves, immortality (amṛ́ta) forsooth [his] axle; he, time, including (?) all these beings, goes on as first god.

A full vessel is set upon time; we indeed see it, being now manifoldly; it [is] in front of all these beings; it call they time in the highest firmament (vyòman).

He indeed together brought beings; he indeed together went about (pari-i) beings; being father, he became son of them; than him verily there is no other brilliancy that is higher (pára).

Time generated yonder sky, time also these earths; what is and what is to be stands out sent forth by time.

Time created the earth; in time burns (tap) the sun; in time [are] all existences; in time the eye looks abroad.

In time is mind, in time is breath, in time is name collected (sam-ā-dhā); by time, when arrived, all these creatures (prajā́) are glad (nand).

In time is fervor, in time is what is chief, in time is the bráhman collected; time is the lord (īçvará) of all, who was father of Prajāpati.

Sent by it, born by it, in it is this (tát) set firm; time, becoming the bráhman, bears the most exalted one.

Time generated progeny, time in the beginning Prajāpati; the self-existent Kaçyapa from time, fervor from time was born.