Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 85, Shloka 29
Adhyaya 85 — The Gods’ Hymn to the Goddess and the Emergence of Kaushiki; Shumbha Sends His Envoy
या देवी सर्वभूतेषु स्मृतिरूपेण संस्थिता ।
नमस्तस्यै नमस्तस्यै नमस्तस्यै नमो नमः ॥
yā devī sarvabhūteṣu smṛtirūpeṇa saṃsthitā / namastasyai namastasyai namastasyai namo namaḥ
जो देवी समस्त प्राणियों में स्मृति के रूप में स्थित हैं, उन्हें नमस्कार, उन्हें नमस्कार, उन्हें नमस्कार; बार-बार नमस्कार।
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FAQs
Memory—needed for learning, gratitude, and moral continuity—is revered as divine; forgetting dharma is implicitly a loss of connection to Devī’s sustaining presence.
A stuti element that strengthens dharmic life; not a direct treatment of sarga/pratisarga/manvantara/vaṃśa/vaṃśānucarita.
Smṛti is the power of recollection that supports mantra-japa and self-remembrance; it also hints at the deeper ‘anamnesis’ of one’s spiritual identity.