Smritihetu, Smṛtihētu, Smṛtihetu, Smriti-hetu: 5 definitions
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Smritihetu means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
The Sanskrit terms Smṛtihētu and Smṛtihetu can be transliterated into English as Smrtihetu or Smritihetu, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Marathi-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionarysmṛtihētu (स्मृतिहेतु).—m S The proximate cause of recollection.
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionarySmṛtihetu (स्मृतिहेतु).—a cause of recollection, impression on the mind, association of ideas.
Derivable forms: smṛtihetuḥ (स्मृतिहेतुः).
Smṛtihetu is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms smṛti and hetu (हेतु).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionarySmṛtihetu (स्मृतिहेतु).—m.
(-tuḥ) The proximate cause of recollection, the act of the mind by which any thing is called to memory, association of ideas, recollection. E. smṛti memory, and hetu cause.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionarySmṛtihetu (स्मृतिहेतु):—[=smṛti-hetu] [from smṛti > smṛ] m. a cause of recollection, impression on the mind, association of ideas, recollection, [Horace H. Wilson]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionarySmṛtihetu (स्मृतिहेतु):—[smṛti-hetu] (tuḥ) 2. m. Cause of remembering, as association, recollection.
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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Partial matches: Smriti, Hetu.
Full-text: Asabhya.
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