As a deity name
Name 924 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
As a Hindi name
No reading on this path — this spelling has no entry in our Hindi sources, and no near neighbour is attested there either. We say so rather than invent one.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
[smṛ-ktin] 1 Remembrance; recollection, memory; a (pb) smṛtiṃ te; saṃskāramātrajanyaṃ jñānaṃ smṛtiḥ; 2 Thinking of, calling to mind. 3 What was delivered by human authors, law, tra…
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M2 · same meaning "smṛtiḥ" is "smṛti" with final visarga (ḥ) — regular end-of-word sandhi (Aṣṭādhyāyī 8.3.15, cited from the engine's own derivation). Same word.
visarga sandhi · aṣṭādhyāyī 8.3.15 — cited from the derivationDictionary citations
smṛtiḥ f. [smṛ-ktin] 1 Remembrance; recollection, memory; a śvatthāmā karadhṛtadhanuḥ kiṃ na yātaḥ (pb) smṛtiṃ te Ve. 3. 21; saṃskāramātrajanyaṃ jñānaṃ smṛtiḥ T. S.; smṛtyupasthitau imau dvau ślokau U. 6; 4. 2. 2 Thinking of, calling to mind. 3 What was delivered by human authors, law, traditional law, the body of traditional or memorial law (civil or religious) (opp. śruti). 4 A code of laws, law-book. 5 A text of Smṛti, canon, rule of law; iti smṛteḥ. 6 Desire, wish. 7 Understanding. Comp. — aṃtaraṃ another law-book. — apeta a. 1 forgotten. 2 inconsistent with Smṛti. 3 (hence) illegal, unjust. — ukta a. prescribed or enjoined in the codes of law, canonical. — pathaḥ, -viṣayaḥ the object of memory; smṛtipathaṃ -viṣayaṃ gam to be dead; Bh. 3. 37, 38. — pratyavamarṣaḥ retentiveness of memory, accuracy of recollection. — prabaṃdhaḥ a legal work. — bhraṃśaḥ loss or failure of memory. — rodhaḥ temporary interruption of memory; loss or failure of memory; Ś. 7. 32. — vibhramaḥ confusion of memory. — viruddha a. illegal. — virodhaḥ 1 opposition to law, illegality. 2 disagreement between two or more Smṛtis or legal texts; smṛtivirodhaṃ pariharati Ś. B. — śāstraṃ 1 a lawbook, code, digest. 2 legal science. — śeṣa a. deceased, dead (as a person). — śaithilyaṃ temporary loss of memory. — sādhya a. capable of being proved by law. — hetuḥ a cause of recollection, impression on the mind, association of ideas.
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.
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