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Lemma: smṛti (f)
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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)
wish (MW)
Topic
Frequency
Mahāyāna 41
jātaka, avadāna 34
Medicine 32
Buddhism 26
Bhakti 19
Yoga 17
Buddha's life 17
Nyāya 17
Pashupata Shaivism 16
purity, impurity, śuddhi, śodhana, śauca 15
Law 12
botany, plants 9
rasāyana 8
dharma 8
Viṣṇu, Vishnuism 8
Alchemy 8
(Im-)purity 7
Lexicography 7
vānaprastha 6
Genealogies 6
prāyaścitta 5
Witness 5
King, rājanīti 5
Vaiśeṣika 5
Teacher (guru) and pupil (śiṣya), ācārya 5
Asceticism, tapas 5
Kashmirian Shivaism 5
study, śiṣya, adhyāya 4
Liberation, mokṣa, release 4
yuga theory 4
Meditation 4
Yogācāra 4
Theatre, nāṭyaśāstra 4
Cosmology 3
ariṣṭa, riṣṭa, kālavijñāna 3
good behaviour 3
Materia medica 3
Astronomy 3
karman doctrine 3
narrative literature 3
Dharmaśāstra 3
Shivaism, Śiva 3
dāna, giving 2
pūjā 2
Names of Viṣṇu, sahasranāman 2
eating, food, anna 2
Debt 2
gṛhastha, householder 2
saṃsāra 2
rebirth, transmigration 2
varṇas, castes 2
Mahābhārata 2
Magic, rites with a purpose, abhicāra 2
Debts and interest 2
Ordeal 2
marriage, wedding 2
saṃskāras 2
hunting 1
Mineralogy, jewels, metals 1
Pārvatī 1
hiṃsā, ahiṃsā 1
bad behaviour 1
jñāna, ajñāna, vidyā, śruta, knowledge 1
mahant 1
friendship 1
omina, presigns, nimittas 1
Dakṣa's sacrifice and Satī 1
cow 1
Prajāpati's children 1
Dakṣa 1
unsteadiness of life 1
praise of Viṣṇu (namas) 1
Prahlāda, Hiraṇyakaśipu 1
Manu, manvantara 1
Śaibyā and Śatadhanu 1
Birth, childhood, and youth 1
for love, love charms 1
prevention 1
āpaddharma 1
Giving, dāna 1
vātavyādhi 1
Sāṃkhya 1
death rites, funeral rites, aurdhvadehika, pitṛmedha 1
Creation of the world 1
Military science 1
triguṇa 1
Senses and world 1
Tīrthas 1
saṃnyāsa 1
process, jurisdiction 1
mankind 1
Cosmogony 1
Poetology 1
dīkṣā 1
pathogenesis, origin of a disease 1
Brahmin 1
sahasranāman 1
Politics 1
śrāddha 1
penance, prāyaścitta 1
Logic 1
(Non-)vegetarism, meat 1
Geography 1
vrata 1
Kṛṣṇa 1
fever, jvara, takman 1
war 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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