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smṛtiḥ

smṛti f. remembrance, reminiscence, thinking of or upon ( loc. or comp. ), calling to mind (smṛtimapitenayānti, ‘they are not even thought of’), memory, TĀr. ; ChUp. ; MBh. &c.

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1. smṛti

smṛti f. remembrance, reminiscence, thinking of or upon ( loc. or comp. ), calling to mind (smṛtimapitenayānti, ‘they are not even thought of’), memory, TĀr. ; ChUp. ; MBh. &c.

2. smṛti

the whole body of sacred tradition or what is remembered by human teachers (in contradistinction to śruti or what is directly heard or revealed to the Ṛṣi s; in its widest acceptation this use of the term Smṛti includes the 6 Vedāṅga s, the Sūtra s both śrauta and gṛhya, the law-books of Manu &c

3. smṛti

the whole body of codes of law as handed down memoriter or by tradition ( esp. the codes of Manu , Yājñavalkya and the 16 succeeding inspired lawgivers, viz. Atri , Viṣṇu , Hārīta , Uśanas or Śukra , Aṅgiras , Yama , Āpastamba , Saṃvarta , Kātyāyana , Bṛhas-pati , Parāśara , Vyāsa , Śaṅkha , Likhīta

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Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.