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'''Apri''' (''{{IAST|āprī}}'') in [[Sanskrit]] means "conciliation, propitiation" and refers to special [[invocation]]s spoken previous to the offering of [[oblation]]s in an [[Animal sacrifice in Hinduism|animal sacrifice]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Jamison|first=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}}</ref> Some scholars have proposed however, that these hymns were originally mean for a family ritual centered around [[Agni]], which was then later connected to the animal sacrifice.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Gonda|first=Jan|title=A History of Indian Literature|publisher=Otto Harrassowitz|year=1975|location=Wiesbaden|pages=104}}</ref>

==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.

{| class=wikitable border="0" style="width:90%; text-align:center"; align="center"
! width="20%"| {{IAST|Āprīsūkta}}<ref name=":0" />
! width="45%"| {{IAST|Ṛṣi}}<ref name=":0" />
|-
| 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==
{{reflist}}
*''{{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.ch/books?id=i0DdJfOXxfQC&pg=PA355#v=onepage&q&f=false p. 355]
*Samir Nath, "Gotra-system" in: ''Dictionary Of Vedanta'', 2002, [https://books.google.ch/books?id=yGBaXO54-HwC&pg=PA153#v=onepage&q&f=false p. 153].

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