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Lemma: smṛti (f)
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Temporal probability mass distribution
Memory (personified either as the daughter of Dskṣa and wife of Aṅgiras or as the daughter of Dharma and Medhā) (MW)
a kind of metre (MW)
calling to mind (MW)
desire (MW)
memory (MW)
memory as one of the Vyabhicāribhāvas (MW)
name of the letter g (MW)
remembrance (MW)
reminiscence (MW)
symbolical name for the number 18 (MW)
the law-books of Manu (MW)
the whole body of codes of law as handed down memoriter or by tradition (esp. the codes of Manu) (MW)
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) (MW)
thinking of or upon (MW)
tradition (Jha 1933)
transmission (OH meanings)
wish (MW)
Topic
Frequency
Mahāyāna 41
jātaka, avadāna 34
Medicine 32
Buddhism 27
Mīmāṃsā 27
Bhakti 19
Yoga 17
Nyāya 17
Buddha's life 17
Pashupata Shaivism 16
authority of the Veda 16
purity, impurity, śuddhi, śodhana, śauca 15
Law 12
botany, plants 9
dharma 9
Alchemy 8
Lexicography 8
Viṣṇu, Vishnuism 8
rasāyana 8
Genealogies 7
(Im-)purity 7
vānaprastha 6
Vaiśeṣika 5
prāyaścitta 5
Teacher (guru) and pupil (śiṣya), ācārya 5
Witness 5
Kashmirian Shivaism 5
King, rājanīti 5
Asceticism, tapas 5
ātman 5
Yogācāra 4
yuga theory 4
study, śiṣya, adhyāya 4
Theatre, nāṭyaśāstra 4
Meditation 4
Liberation, mokṣa, release 4
Materia medica 3
Cosmology 3
eating, food, anna 3
Magic, rites with a purpose, abhicāra 3
narrative literature 3
rebirth, transmigration 3
karman doctrine 3
good behaviour 3
Shivaism, Śiva 3
marriage, wedding 3
Dharmaśāstra 3
ariṣṭa, riṣṭa, kālavijñāna 3
varṇas, castes 3
Astronomy 3
Names of Viṣṇu, sahasranāman 2
pūjā 2
saṃsāra 2
Pitṛ worship, pitṛyajña 2
Debt 2
Vedic tradition 2
dāna, giving 2
saṃskāras 2
gṛhastha, householder 2
Debts and interest 2
Ordeal 2
Mahābhārata 2
cow 1
Dakṣa's sacrifice and Satī 1
mahant 1
hunting 1
Cosmogony 1
Dakṣa 1
bad behaviour 1
hiṃsā, ahiṃsā 1
Pārvatī 1
Prajāpati's children 1
praise of Viṣṇu (namas) 1
omina, presigns, nimittas, adbhuta, omen 1
unsteadiness of life 1
saṃnyāsa 1
Prahlāda, Hiraṇyakaśipu 1
Manu, manvantara 1
Śaibyā and Śatadhanu 1
Birth, childhood, and youth 1
for love, love charms 1
Sāṃkhya 1
prevention 1
Politics 1
Etymology 1
Mineralogy, jewels, metals 1
mankind 1
war 1
Tīrthas 1
śrāddha 1
Senses and world 1
triguṇa 1
Creation of the world 1
Language 1
Poetology 1
Brideship and marriage 1
Cosmography 1
(Non-)vegetarism, meat 1
dīkṣā 1
Brahmin 1
sahasranāman 1
penance, prāyaścitta 1
friendship 1
Logic 1
death rites, funeral rites, aurdhvadehika, pitṛmedha 1
Giving, dāna 1
Geography 1
vrata 1
Kṛṣṇa 1
fever, jvara, takman 1
pathogenesis, origin of a disease 1
vātavyādhi 1
āpaddharma 1
process, jurisdiction 1
Military science 1
jñāna, ajñāna, vidyā, śruta, knowledge 1
Concept Notes Count memory the power of retaining and recalling past experience; "he had a good memory when he was younger" 33 Smṛti the whole body of sacred tradition or what is remembered by human teachers 12 memory the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered; "he can do it from memory"; "he enjoyed remembering his father" 4 eighteen the cardinal number that is the sum of seventeen and one 3 reminiscence a mental impression retained and recalled 2 recall the ability to recall past occurrences 1
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