smṛti (f)
Meanings
- a kind of metre
- calling to mind
- desire
- memory
- Memory (personified either as the daughter of Dskṣa and wife of Aṅgiras or as the daughter of Dharma and Medhā)
- memory as one of the Vyabhicāribhāvas
- name of the letter g
- remembrance
- reminiscence
- symbolical name for the number 18
- the law-books of Manu
- the whole body of codes of law as handed down memoriter or by tradition (esp. the codes of Manu)
- 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 ṣis)
- thinking of or upon
- wish
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