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The corpus record — Sanskrit

hṛdi

n

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Where it lives

  • Svetasvatara Upanisad 3 · 17.46/10k
  • Katha Upanisad 2 · 9.28/10k
  • Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 33 · 4.36/10k
  • Bhagavad Gita 3 · 3.49/10k
  • Prasna Upanisad 2 · 3.06/10k
  • Chandogya Upanisad 4 · 0.85/10k

What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. هرد-

hrd- n. Herz (RV + [härdi NomAkkSg (s.u.), hrd-ds GenSg, hrd-€ DatSg, hrt-si LokPl u.a.], AiGr III 236f.); *härd- in RV (8,2,5), AV + su-härd- mit gutem Herzen, befreundet, AV dur-härd- übeigesinnt, Feind, °hrd- in Sü + su-hrd- Freund, RV 10,160,3 sarva-hrd-ä InstrSg ‘von ganzem Herzen’; hrdayan. Herz (RV +); Ahrdya- herzlich geliebt (RV +), hrddyotam. ein inneres Gebrechen (s.o. I 754). - Mi., nu., dard., ni., pä. … — [Mayrhofer, s.v. hrd-, p. 846]

2. hṛd

hṛd 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; hṛdyavedin, ‘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.

3. hṛdi

hṛdi ( loc. of hṛd), in comp.

In the wild

6 of 47 attestations shown.

Where it came from

  • Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) Treated in Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) s.v. hrd (vol. 2, scan p. 846; entry #6278). Root candidates: *härd-.

Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.