Editing Mitra (section)

==Indian Mitra==
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[[Historical Vedic religion|Vedic]] Mitra is a prominent deity of the [[Rigveda]] distinguished by a relationship to [[Varuna]], the protector of ''[[rta]]'' as described in hymn 2, Mandala 1 of Rigveda. Together with Varuna, he counted among the [[Ādityas|Aditya]]s, a group of [[solar deity|solar deities]], also in later Vedic texts. Vedic Mitra is the patron divinity of honesty, friendship, contracts and meetings.

The first extant record of Indo-Aryan <ref>{{Citation|title=The 'Aryan' Gods of the Mitanni Treaties|last=Thieme|first=Paul|journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society|volume=80|year=1960| issue=4 |pages=301–317 | doi=10.2307/595878 | jstor=595878 |postscript=.}} pp. 301–317.</ref> Mitra, in the form ''mi-it-ra-'', is in the inscribed peace treaty of c. 1400 BC between [[Hittites]] and the [[Hurrians|Hurrian]] kingdom of the [[Mitanni]] in the area southeast of [[Lake Van]] in [[Asia Minor]].  Mitra appears there together with four other Indic divinities as witnesses and keepers of the pact.