hṛ́d n. (optionally substituted for hṛdaya in the weak cases i.e. in all except the first five inflexions; thought to be connected with śrad, q.v.) the heart (as the seat of feelings and emotions), soul, mind (as seat of thought and intellectual operations; hṛdy avedin, ‘having no capacity of knowledge in the heart or mind’, said of animals), breast, chest, stomach, interior (also in older language, ‘interior of the body’), [RV.]; &c.
[cf. Gk. καρδία, κραδίη; Lat. cor (cordis); Germ. Herz; Eng. heart.]