Editing Atri (section)

{{Short description|Sage in Hinduism}}
{{About|the Vedic sage}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}}
{{Use Indian English|date=December 2020}}
{{Infobox deity
| affiliation = Brahmarshi
| image = Rama visits Atri.jpg
| caption = [[Rama]] visiting Atri's hermitage. As Atri talks to Rama and his brother [[Lakshmana]], [[Anusuya]] talks with his wife [[Sita]]
| father  = [[Brahma]]
| spouse = [[Anasuya]]
| children = [[Durvasa]], [[Chandra]] and [[Dattatreya]]
| type = hindu
}}

'''Atri''' or '''Attri''' is a Vedic sage, who is credited with composing numerous [[shlokas]] to [[Agni]], [[Indra]], and other [[Historical Vedic religion|Vedic]] deities of [[Hinduism]]. Atri is one of the [[Saptarishi]] (seven great Vedic sages) in the Hindu tradition, and the one most mentioned in the [[Rigveda]].<ref name="Rigopoulos1998p2">{{cite book|author=Antonio Rigopoulos|title=Dattatreya: The Immortal Guru, Yogin, and Avatara |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZM-BlvaqAf0C |year=1998|publisher=State University of New York Press|isbn=978-0-7914-3696-7|pages=2–4}}</ref>

The fifth Mandala (Book 5) of the Rigveda is called the Atri Mandala in his honour, and the eighty seven shlokas in it are attributed to him and his descendants.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Stephanie W. Jamison|author-link=Stephanie W. Jamison|author2=Joel P. Brereton|title=The Rigveda|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1-PRAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA659|year=2014|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-19-937018-4|pages=659–660}}</ref>

Atri is also mentioned in the [[Purana]]s and the Hindu epics of the [[Ramayana]] and the [[Mahabharata]].<ref name="Alf Hiltebeitel 2016 55–56, 129">{{cite book|author=Alf Hiltebeitel|title=Nonviolence in the Mahabharata: Siva’s Summa on Rishidharma and the Gleaners of Kurukshetra|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7abOCwAAQBAJ|year=2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-23877-5|pages=55–56, 129}}</ref><ref name="Dalal2010p49">{{cite book|author=Roshen Dalal|title=Hinduism: An Alphabetical Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DH0vmD8ghdMC|year=2010|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=978-0-14-341421-6|page=49}}</ref>