AprI f. [ AprIRAtyanayA A-prI-qagOrA° NIz ] Ved. 1 Conciliation, propitiation, gaining one's favour. 2 ( pl. ) ‘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 Āprīs to represent the objects themselves, the verses being consequently called Āprī verses. The objects invoked are 12:-Susamiddha, Tanūnapāt, Narāśaṃsa, 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, Tvaṣṭṛ, Vanaspati and Svāhā, (all these being regarded by Sāyaṇa to be different forms of Agni); sa etA AprIrapaSyattABirvEsa muKata AtmAnamAprIRIta ; cf. also Max Müller's Hist. Anc. Lit. pp. 463-466.