hfd
hf/d n. (optionally substituted for hfdaya in the weak cases i.e. in all except the first five inflexions; thought to be connected with Srad , q.v. ) the heart (as the seat of feelings and emotions), soul, mind (as seat of thought and intellectual operations; hfdy 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.