Smriti (Sanskrit: सà¥à¤®à¥ƒà¤¤à¤¿, IAST: Smá¹›ti), literally "that which is remembered" are a body of Hindu texts usually attributed to an author, traditionally written down but constantly revised, in contrast to Åšrutis (the Vedic literature) considered authorless, that were transmitted verbally across the generations and fixed.