Sanskrit dictionary (beta)

[आप्रीणात्यनया आ-प्री-ड-गौराdenotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be supplied ङीष्]

1. Vedic
2. Conciliation, propitiation, gaining one's favour.
3. (Plural) 'Propitiatory verses', a name given to certain invocations addressed to several deified objects in consecutive order, and said to be introductory to the animal sacrifice; some take the Apris to represent the objects themselves, the verses being consequently called Apri verses. The objects invoked are 12: Susamiddha, Tanūnapāt, Narāśaṁsa, the divine being bearing invocations to the gods, Barhis, the doors of the sacrificial chamber, night and dawn the two divine beings protecting the sacrifice, the three goddesses Ilā, Sarasvatī, and Mahī, Tvaṣṭṛi, Vanaspati and Svāhā, (all these being regarded by Sāyaṇa to be different forms of Agni); स एता आप्रीरपश्यत्ताभिर्वै स मुखत आत्मानमा- प्रीणीत; Compare also Max Muller's Hist. Anc. Lit. pp. 463-466.

1. Parasmaipada (-प्रीणाति AitBr. ii, 4; Aorist subjunctive 2. sg. -पिप्र्/अयस् fg-veda ii, 6, 8) to satisfy, conciliate, propitiate, please fg-veda TS. S3Br.; to address or invoke with the A1pri1 आप्री (see below) verses AitBr. S3Br. : Atmane-pada (imperfect tense आ*प्रीणीत) to amuse one's self, be delighted or pleased TS. La1t2y.
2. feminine gaining one's favour, conciliation, propitiation
3. feminine plural (-प्र्/इयस् [AV. xi, 7, 19] and -प्र्यस् [Na1ra1yan2a नारायण]) Name of particular invocations spoken previous to the offering of oblations (according to A1s3vS3r. iii, 2, 5 seqq. they are different in different schools; exempli gratia, 'for example' स्/अमिद्धो अग्न्/इर् fg-veda v, 28, 1, in the school of S3unaka शुनक; जुष्/अस्व नः fg-veda vii, 2, 1, in that of Vasisht2ha वसिष्ठ; स्/अमिद्धो अद्य्/अ fg-veda x, 110, 1, in that of according to others; Na1ra1yan2a नारायण on this passage gives ten hymns belonging to different schools; see also Sa1y. on fg-veda i, 13 [स्/उसमिद्धो न /आ वह, the A1pri1 आप्री -hymn of the school of Kan2va कण्व], who enumerates twelve A1pri1s आप्री s and explains that twelve deities are propitiated; those deities are personified objects belonging to the fire-sacrifice, viz. the fuel, the sacred grass, the enclosure, etc., all regarded as different forms of Agni अग्नि; hence the objects are also called A1pri1s आप्री s, or, according to according to others, the objects are the real A1pri1s आप्री s, whence the hymns received their names) AV. TS. A1s3vS3r. etc.