In this paper, I build on recent scholarship concerning the early semantic history of the word “smṛti,” which has been shown to denote “tradition” in the early dharmasūtra material. I seek to add nuance to this work by examining the meaning of smṛti in the early Sāmavedic technical literature. This corpus helps elucidate one of the processes whereby smṛti came to refer to something textual. This paper argues that smṛti’s earliest textualized referent may have been fixed or semi-fixed individual statements rather than definite texts.

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重温“记忆”：萨摩吠陀技术文献告诉我们关于 Smṛti 早期含义的内容

在本文中，我基于最近关于“ smṛti ”一词的早期语义历史的学术研究，该词已在早期dharmasūtra材料中被证明表示“传统” 。我试图通过检查早期 Sāmavedic 技术文献中smṛti的含义来为这项工作添加细微差别。该语料库有助于阐明smṛti指代文本的过程之一。本文认为smṛti最早的文本化指称可能是固定或半固定的个别陈述，而不是确定的文本。