GLIMPSES OF INDIAN GENIUS-HRIDAYA

The word for HEART in Vedic Sanskrit is “HRIDAYA”. It is made of three parts- HRI, DA, YA. HRI comes from HARATI which means to receive, DA is short form of DADATI which means to give and YA stands for AYATI which means to go, to move or to circulate. It is amazing to know how the Vedic seers coined this word since heart has only these three functions. Millenniums later WILLIAM HARVEY in 1682 A.D. was the first European to discover the circulation of blood.