Apris

Apri (āprī) in Sanskrit means "conciliation, propitiation" and refers to special invocations spoken previous to the offering of oblations in an animal sacrifice.^[1]

RV 1.13 is known as the Apri-hymn of the Kanvas, and Sayana in the context of this hymn enumerates twelve Apris propitiating twelve deities, also known as Apris (āpryas). These are deified objects belonging to the fire sacrifice of Vedic religion, the fuel, the sacred grass, the enclosure, etc. The Apris are all regarded as different manifestations of Agni.^{[citation needed]}

The identification of individual Rigvedic verses as "Apris" (f. pl. either Āpríyas or Āpryas) is found in Shrauta Sutra literature. The āśvalāyana-śrauta-sūtra (3.2.5ff) states that these hymns are chosen differently in different schools. Thus, RV 5.28.1 is the Apri of the śaunaka school, RV 7.2.1 in that of vasaiṣṭha, and RV 10.110.1 that of others. Gargya Narayana later gives ten entire Rigvedic hymns (suktas) as "Āprīsūktas" belonging to different gotras.^{[citation needed]}

Aprisuktas

Of the ten Aprisuktas mentioned in Gargya Narayana's commentary, I.13 and I.142 both invoke the Narāśaṁsa and Tanūnapāt manifestations of Agni, I.188, III.4, IX.5 and X.110 invoke only the Tanūnapāt manifestation and II.3, V.5, VII.2 and X.70 invoke only the Narāśaṁsa manifestation.

Āprīsūkta^[1]	Ṛṣi^[1]
1.13	Medhātithi Kāṇva
1.142	Dīrghatamās Aucathya
1.188	Agastya Maitrāvaruṇi
2.3	Gṛtsamada Bhārgava Śaunaka, originally Gṛtsamada Āṅgirasa Śaunahotra
3.4	Viśvāmitra Gāthina
5.5	Vasuśruta Ātreya
7.2	Vasiṣṭha MaitrāvaruṇI
9.5	Asita Kāśyapa or Devala Kāśyapa
10.70	Sumitra Vādhryaśva
10.110	Jamadagni Bhārgava or Rāma Jāmadagnya

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Jamison, Stephanie W.; Brereton, Joel (2014). The Rigveda: The Earliest Religious Poetry of India. Oxford University Press. pp. 104, 318, 393, 405, 472, 667, 883, 1239, 1494, 1576. ISBN 9780199370184.

āprī in: Monier-Williams A Sanskrit Dictionary, 1899.
R. Fick, "Gotra" in: ed. Hastings, Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics vol. 6, 1999, p. 355
Samir Nath, "Gotra-system" in: Dictionary Of Vedanta, 2002, p. 153.

[:0-1] Jamison, Stephanie W.; Brereton, Joel (2014). The Rigveda: The Earliest Religious Poetry of India. Oxford University Press. pp. 104, 318, 393, 405, 472, 667, 883, 1239, 1494, 1576. ISBN 9780199370184.

[1]