smriti
स्मृति smṛti'That which is remembered': the body of texts of human authorship (epics, Puranas, Dharmashastras, the Gita), ranked below shruti and deriving its authority from it.
Where this term appears
- Shruti and Smriti: what counts as Hindu scripture? Scriptures
Smriti means "that which is remembered." Everything in this second category has a human author or authors.
- What are the Puranas? Scriptures
The Puranas are smriti , "that which is remembered," the body of texts handed down by human teachers.
- What are the Vedas? Scriptures
Everything else, however revered, falls into a second category called smriti ( SMRI-ti ), "that which is remembered".
- Āgama and Veda: two revelations Lineages
…g: in the first age the practice came from śruti , in the second from smṛti , in the third from the Purāṇa, and in the age of Kali from the Āgama alone.
- What are the Upanishads? Scriptures
…evelation rather than human composition, and it is distinguished from smriti , "that which is remembered," the larger and later body of texts that includes the epics and the law books.
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
The Yajnavalkya Smriti shows what the second of them looks like as a rite.
- How the Vedas Were Preserved History
This is also why the Veda is called shruti and everything else — the epics, the law books, the Puranas — is called smriti , "that which is remembered." The distinction is not just about authority.
- The caste system: what Hinduism says Essentials
It is one smriti , a remembered human composition, among many such law books that disagree with each other; it was never a single scripture binding on all Hindus everywhere; and its authority has always been co…