Apris
{{Short description|Sanskrit word}}
Apri ({{IAST|āprī}}) in Sanskrit means "conciliation, propitiation" and refers to special invocations spoken previous to the offering of oblations in an animal sacrifice.{{Cite book|last1=Jamison|first1=Stephanie W.|title=The Rigveda: The Earliest Religious Poetry of India|last2=Brereton|first2=Joel|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2014|isbn=9780199370184|pages=104, 318, 393, 405, 472, 667, 883, 1239, 1494, 1576}} Some scholars have proposed however, that these hymns were originally meant for a family ritual centered around Agni, which was then later connected to the animal sacrifice.{{Cite journal|last=Bosch|first=Lourens P. van den|date=1985|title=The Āprī Hymns of the Ṛgveda and Their Interpretation|journal=Indo-Iranian Journal|volume=28|issue=2|pages=97}}{{Cite book|last=Gonda|first=Jan|title=A History of Indian Literature|publisher=Otto Harrassowitz|year=1975|location=Wiesbaden|pages=104}}
Aprisuktas
Of the ten Aprisuktas mentioned in Gargya Narayana's commentary, I.13 and I.142 both invoke the {{IAST|Narāśaṁsa}} and {{IAST|Tanūnapāt}} manifestations of Agni, I.188, III.4, IX.5 and X.110 invoke only the {{IAST|Tanūnapāt}} manifestation and II.3, V.5, VII.2 and X.70 invoke only the {{IAST|Narāśaṁsa}} manifestation.
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| 1.13
| {{IAST|Medhātithi Kāṇva}} |
| 1.142
| {{IAST|Dīrghatamās Aucathya}} |
| 1.188
| {{IAST|Agastya Maitrāvaruṇi}} |
| 2.3
| {{IAST|Gṛtsamada Bhārgava Śaunaka, originally Gṛtsamada Āṅgirasa Śaunahotra}} |
| 3.4
| {{IAST|Viśvāmitra Gāthina}} |
| 5.5
| {{IAST|Vasuśruta Ātreya}} |
| 7.2
| {{IAST|Vasiṣṭha Maitrāvaruṇi}} |
| 9.5
| {{IAST|Asita Kāśyapa or Devala Kāśyapa}} |
| 10.70
| {{IAST|Sumitra Vādhryaśva}} |
| 10.110
| {{IAST|Jamadagni Bhārgava or Rāma Jāmadagnya}} |
References
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- {{IAST|āprī}} in: Monier-Williams A Sanskrit Dictionary, 1899.
- R. Fick, "Gotra" in: ed. Hastings, Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics vol. 6, 1999, [https://books.google.com/books?id=i0DdJfOXxfQC&pg=PA355 p. 355]
- Samir Nath, "Gotra-system" in: Dictionary Of Vedanta, 2002, [https://books.google.com/books?id=yGBaXO54-HwC&pg=PA153 p. 153].