आ-√ प्री 1.P. (
-प्रीणाति,
[AitBr. ii, 4] ;
aor. Subj. 2.
sg. -पिप्र॑यस्,
[RV. ii, 6, 8] )
to satisfy, conciliate, propitiate, please,
[RV.] ;
[TS.] ;
[ŚBr.] ;
to address or invoke with the
आप्री (See below) verses,
[AitBr.] ;
[ŚBr.] :
Ā. (
impf. आ-प्रीणीत) to amuse one's self, be delighted or pleased,
[TS.] ;
[Lāṭy.] आ-प्री f. 2.f. gaining one's favour, conciliation, propitiation
-प्रियस् f. f. pl. ( [
[AV. xi, 7, 19] ] and
-प्र्यस् [
नारायण])
N. of particular invocations spoken previous to the offering of oblations (according to,
[ĀśvŚr. iii, 2, 5 seqq.] they are different in different schools;
e.g. स॑मिद्धो अग्नि॑र्,
[RV. v, 28, 1] , in the school of
शुनक;
जुष॑स्व नः,
[RV. vii, 2, 1] , in that of
वसिष्ठ;
स॑मिद्धो अद्य॑,
[RV. x, 110, 1] , in that of others;
नारायण on this passage gives ten hymns belonging to different schools; See also,
[Sāy.] on
[RV. i, 13] [
सु॑समिद्धो न आ॑ वह, the
आप्री-hymn of the school of
कण्व], who enumerates twelve
आप्रीs 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, &c., all regarded as different forms of
अग्नि; hence the objects are also called
आप्रीs, or, according to others, the objects are the real
आप्रीs, whence the hymns received their names),
[AV.] ;
[TS.] ;
[ĀśvŚr. &c.]