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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.]
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