Encounter · c. 1350 BCE

Indo-Aryan gods in a Hittite treaty

Hattusa, Anatolia

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A treaty between the Hittite king and the kingdom of Mitanni calls Mitra, Varuna, Indra and the Nasatyas as divine witnesses. Mitanni's ruling class bore Indo-Aryan names, and this is the earliest datable record of gods later found in the Vedas, written far from India.

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