WASHINGTON, Aug. 11— India privately assured Washington today that her new friendship treaty with the Soviet Union was not directed against the United States or any of its allies.

Official sources said that these assurances were volunteered by the Indian Government—two days after the treaty was signed in New Delhi —when Ambassador Lakshmi Kant Jha met at his own request this morning with Secretary of State William P. Rogers.

Mr. Rogers, according to the sources, received the Indian assurances without indicating any displeasure on the part of the Nixon Administration. He reportedly repeated the hope he expressed Monday that the effect of the treaty would be positive.

The State Department refused, however, to discuss Secretary Rogers's conference with Mr. Jha. The department's spokesman, Robert J. McCloskey, declined to go beyond the statement that the Soviet‐Indian treaty was a subject of the meeting.

Administration Is Silent

Against the background of steadily deteriorating relations between the United States and India—partly resulting from continued American economic aid to Pakistan and deliveries of military equipment brought here by the Pakistanis—the Administration maintained public silence concerning its attitude toward New Delhi.

Indian spokesmen have argued that in view of China's support for Pakistan, the American overtures to Peking have, in effect, isolated India. The logical consequence, they suggested, was for India to turn toward the Russians.

The United States, on the other hand, has long resented India's growing intimacy with the Soviet Union. The United States reportedly is also concerned that the Indian support for the guerrillas of East Pakistani secessionists may precipitate a conflict in the subcontinent.

The United States is said to feel that, despite more than $8billion in economic aid to India since her independence in 1947, India has not shown understanding of American policies. The proposed assistance in the fiscal year 1972 is set at $410million, plus $50‐million in compensation for the losses resulting froth the flow of East Pakistani refugees.

The Indian reaction is that “friendship cannot be bought,” an official remarked in New Delhi recently.

“We seem to be moving from misunderstanding to misunderstanding,” an American official said today, “and our relations just seem to get worse and worse.”

The State Department announced today that Secretary Rogers had conveyed to Ambassador Agha Hilaly of Pakistan the concern of the United States over the fate of Sheik Mujibur Rahman, head of the Awami League in East Pakistan. Sheik Mujib was scheduled to face a treason trial, to be held in secret, somewhere in West Pakistan today.

According to Mr. McCloskey, Secretary Rogers also transmitted to Mr. Hilaly an appeal by 11 Senators and 58 Representatives for compassion for Sheik Mujib.

U.S.‐Soviet Ties Delicate

Other Administration sources conceded that if Sheik Mujib is executed on charges of “making war” against Pakistan because of the separatist activities of the Awami League, the United States would find it extremely difficult to justify continued economic aid and delivery of military equipment to Pakistan. The House of Representatives voted last week to suspend aid to Pakistan. The Senate has not yet acted.

American officials said privately that among the reasons for the refusal to discuss publicly the 20‐year friendship treaty between the Soviet Union and India was the extremely delicate state of United States relations with Moscow after President Nixon's announcement last month that he would visit China before next May.

Diplomatic sources reported that the treaty had been under secret negotiation between Moscow and New Delhi for months, but that the decision to sign it “precipitously,” as one diplomat put it, was a result of the Nixon announcement on China and of India's concern over a possible war with Pakistan.

Neither American nor Indian officials were prepared to predict, even in private conversations, how the Soviet‐Indian treaty might affect in the long run the relationship between Washington and New Delhi.

But, despite Secretary Rogers's reported acceptance of the Indian assurances today, there was a feeling on both sides that the new pact would, at least for some time, contribute to a further deterioration in relations.