• Blog
  • Sanskrit
  • About
  • abhayamitra


    Personal and Geographical Names in the Gupta Inscriptions

    p. 91.
    1. Abhayamitra (No. 48, L. 2; No. 54, L. 2):

    The name consisting of two parts ‘abhaya’ and ‘mitra’ can

    mean a friend of unfearfulness or ‘an unfearful friend’. ‘Abhaya’

    is also the name of Lord Śiva28 and ‘mitra’ is a synonym for

    the god Sun. Thus it may also be a name formed by combining

    the names of two deities as in the case of Rāmakṛṣṇa. Abhaya-

    mitra was the name of a Buddhist monk who caused a pratimā

    to be built.