mitra

plural mitras

1. A person who is interested in becoming a Buddhist and elects to join a Buddhist community to learn more.

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

   1989, Elizabeth-Chalier Visuvalingam, “Bhairava's Royal Brahmanicide,”, in Criminal Gods and Demon Devotees, page 200

2. uncommonA 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.

   1963, Jørgen Læssøe, People of Ancient Assyria: Their Inscriptions and Correspondence, Routledge,, page 86

3. alternativerareAlternative form of Mithra (“Iranian deity”).

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

   1923, John Nicol Farquhar, The Religious Quest of India, OUP, page 120

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

   2001, Manfred Clauss, The Roman Cult of Mithras: The God and His Mysteries, page 7

1. A surname from Sanskrit.