n. the act of remembering or calling to mind, remembrance, reminiscence, recollection of (gen. or comp.), [MBh.]; [R.] &c.
memory, [BhP.]
a kind of rhet. figure (cf. smṛti), [Kpr.]
handing down by memory, tradition, traditional teaching or record or precept (iti smaraṇāt, ‘from its being so mentioned in the Smṛti’ q.v.), [Kull.] : [Yājñ., Sch.]
mental recitation (of the name of a deity), calling upon the name of a god, [MW.]