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Smriti denotes the body of Hindu texts, remembered and written rather than orally revealed, that are rooted in or inspired by the Vedas and traditionally attributed to named human authors. Because they carry named authorship and are transmitted in manuscript form, they are distinguished within Hindu tradition from shruti, the revealed Vedic literature with no named author, and generally hold secondary authority to shruti in most orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy, though the Mimamsa school is a notable exception. Smriti texts, including the dharmashastra literature, form the traditional textual basis for much of Hindu personal and religious law. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Entity-backed identity for the legal family value this legal-system already carries as an enum fact, resolved to a legal-system entity by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.

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1. Wikipedia: Smṛti
a body of Hindu texts representing the remembered, written tradition in HinduismView the Source
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