Meaning of mitra | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A divinity of Vedic culture, hypostasis of friendship and one-half of the dvandva (compound divinity) Varuna-Mitra.
2. A surname from Sanskrit.
3. A person who is interested in becoming a Buddhist and elects to join a Buddhist community to learn more.
4. A deity invoked in the Hurrian Mitanni of ca. 1400 BC.
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Examples

“[In post-Vedic India], Vedic Mitra practically disappears and Varuna is relegated to a subsidiary position”

“when about 1350 B.C. a treaty was concluded between the king of Mittanni [...] and the Hittite ruler [...], the former calls upon the gods Mitra, Indra, Varuna, and the Nâsatya as guarantors of his sworn obligations.”

“As the Avestan Mitra had a luminous character, so had the Vedic Mitra.”

“We cannot account for Roman Mithras in terms borrowed from Persian Mitra.”

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