As a deity name
Name 771 of the Ganesha Sahasranāma — Ganesha Purana (Upasana Khanda), as taught by Sage Vyasa / Lord Ganesha
Name 954 of the Gopal Sahasranāma — Sammohana Tantra, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 383 of the Hanuman Sahasranāma — Rasvin Samhita / Brahmanda Purana, as taught by Lord Ram / Sages
Name 263 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
स्मृति · noun · feminine
स्मरण शक्ति के द्वारा संचित होनेवाला ज्ञान · स्मरण । याद · दक्ष की कन्या और अंगिरा की पत्नी के गर्भ से उत्पन्न एक कन्या — Śabdasāgara
स्मृति · smr̤iti · s.f.
Remembrance, recollection, memory; the body of law as delivered originally by tradition, memorial law; a law-book; law, tradition — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 676
स्मृति · feminine
a female given name, Smriti, from Sanskrit
स्मृति · feminine
memory, recollection, remembrance; Smriti
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi स्मृति — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit स्मृति (smṛti). Doublet of सुरत (surat).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
smṛti f. remembrance, reminiscence, thinking of or upon (loc. or comp.), calling to mind (smṛtim api te na yānti, ‘they are not even thought of’), memory, TĀr.; ChUp.; MBh. &c.
memory as one of the Vyabhicāri-bhāvas (q.v.), Daśar.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
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, Uśa…
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smṛti f. remembrance, reminiscence, thinking of or upon (loc. or comp.), calling to mind (smṛtim api te na yānti, ‘they are not even thought of’), memory, TĀr.; ChUp.; MBh. &c.
memory as one of the Vyabhicāri-bhāvas (q.v.), Daśar.
Memory (personified either as the daughter of Dakṣa and wife of Aṅgiras or as the daughter of Dharma and Medhā), Hariv.; Pur.
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 Ṛṣis; in its widest acceptation this use of the term Smṛti includes the 6 Vedāṅgas, the Sūtras both śrauta and gṛhya, the law-books of Manu &c. [see next]; the Itihāsas [e.g. the Mahābhārata and Rāmāyaṇa], the Purāṇas and the Nītiśāstras; iti smṛteḥ, ‘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 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, Dakṣa and Gautama; all these lawgivers being held to be inspired and to have based their precepts on the Veda; cf. IW. 203), GṛŚrS.; Mn.; Yājñ. &c.
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