smṛ́ti 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.
symbolical N. for the number 18 (fr. the 18 lawgivers above)
a kind of metre, [L.]
N. of the letter g, [Up.]
desire, wish, [Pañcat. iii, 258] (v.l. for spṛhā).