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mitra
name 4noun 1
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4ADJ.
luminous, post-vedic, vedic
MITRA + NOUN
indra, varuna
PREP.
upon
ADV.
practically
Definitions
noun
1
A person who is interested in becoming a Buddhist and elects to join a Buddhist community to learn more.
name
1
A divinity of Vedic culture, hypostasis of friendship and one-half of the dvandva (compound divinity) Varuna-Mitra.
[In post-Vedic India], Vedic Mitra practically disappears and Varuna is relegated to a subsidiary position
2
A deity invoked in the Hurrian Mitanni of ca. 1400 BC.
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.
3
Alternative form of Mithra (“Iranian deity”).
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.
name
1
A surname from Sanskrit.
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[In post-Vedic India], Vedic Mitra practically disappears and Varuna is relegated to a subsidiary position
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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 sw
Wiktionary03
As the Avestan Mitra had a luminous character, so had the Vedic Mitra.
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