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स्मृति f. f. remembrance, reminiscence, thinking of or upon (loc. or comp. ), calling to mind (स्मृतिम् अपि ते न यान्ति, ‘they are not even thought of’), memory, [TĀr.] ; [ChUp.] ; [MBh.] &c. memory as one of the व्यभिचारि-भावs (q.v. ), [Daśar.] Memory (personified either as the daughter of दक्ष and wife of अङ्गिरस् or as the daughter of धर्म and मेधा), [Hariv.] ; [Pur.] श्रुति the whole body of sacred tradition or what is remembered by human teachers (in contradistinction to or what is directly heard or revealed to the ऋषिs; in its widest acceptation this use of the term स्मृति includes the 6 वेदाङ्गs, the सूत्रs both श्रौत and गृह्य, the law-books of मनु &c. [see next]; the इतिहासs [e.g. the महाभारत and रामायण], the पुराणs and the नीतिशास्त्रs; इति स्मृतेः, ‘accord. to such and such a traditional precept or legal text’), [IW. 144, 145] the whole body of codes of law as handed down memoriter or by tradition (esp. the codes of मनु, याज्ञवल्क्य and the 16 succeeding inspired lawgivers, viz. अत्रि, विष्णु, हारीत, उशनस् or शुक्र, अङ्गिरस्, यम, आपस्तम्ब, संवर्त, कात्यायन, बृहस्-पति, पराशर, व्यास, शङ्ख, लिखीत, दक्ष and गौतम; all these lawgivers being held to be inspired and to have based their precepts on the वेद; cf. [IW. 203] ), [GṛŚrS.] ; [Mn.] ; [Yājñ.] &c. symbolical N. for the number 18 (fr. the 18 lawgivers above) a kind of metre, [L.] ग् N. of the letter , [Up.] स्पृहा desire, wish, [Pañcat. iii, 258] (v.l. for ).
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