mitra , ( 1 ) friend (in Skt. nt. ), sometimes with m. gender (also in Pali ; not by inheritance from Vedic , but a MIndic change of gender, caused by the mg. ; in Class. Skt. extremely rare and perhaps only in word-plays): kalyāṇamitrāṃś ca niṣevamāṇāḥ pāpāṃś ca mitrān parivarjayantāḥ SP 98.1 ( vs ); purāṇamitraḥ 210.10 (prose); mitraṃ ca tasya (read tasyo, WT ), with nt. epithets, 212.10 ( vs ), but Kashgar rec. mitraś and m. epithets; pūrvamitro 213.3 ( vs , no v.l. ); ( 2 ) n. of a merchant, father of Maitrakanya(ka) : Divy 586.16 ; 589.12 ; 593.16 ; Av i.195.3 ff.