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mitra

mitrá m. (orig. mit-tra, fr. √ mith or mid; cf. medin) a friend, companion, associate, [RV.]; [AV.] (in later language mostly n.)

N. of an Āditya (generally invoked together with Varuṇa cf. mitrā-v°, and often associated with Aryaman q.v.; Mitra is extolled alone in [RV. iii, 59], and there described as calling men to activity, sustaining earth and sky and beholding all creatures with unwinking eye; in later times he is considered as the deity of the constellation Anurādhā, and father of Utsarga), [RV.] &c. &c.

the sun, [Kāv.] &c. (cf. comp.)

N. of a Marut, [Hariv.]

of a son of Vasiṣṭha and various other men, [Pur.]

of the third Muhūrta, [L.]

du. = mitrá-varuṇa, [RV.]

mitrá n. friendship, [RV.]

mitrá n. a friend, companion (cf. m. above), [TS.] &c., &c.

mitrá n. (with aurasa) a friend connected by blood-relationship, [Hit.]

an ally (a prince whose territory adjoins that of an immediate neighbour who is called ari, enemy, [Mn. vii, 158] &c., in this meaning also applied to planets, [VarBṛS.])

a companion to = resemblance of (gen.; ifc. = resembling, like), [Bālar.]; [Vcar.]

N. of the god Mitra (enumerated among the 10 fires), [MBh.]

a partic. mode of fighting, [Hariv.] (v.l. for bhinna).

Nom. P. mitrati, to act in a friendly manner, [Śatr.]