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hetuहेतुhetú &c. See p. 1303, col. 3.
hetú m. ‘impulse’, motive, cause, cause of, reason for (loc., rarely dat. or gen.; hetunā, hetoḥ, hetave, hetau, ‘for a cause or reason’, ‘by reason of’, ‘on account of’ [with gen. or comp., e.g. mama hetoḥ or mad-dhetoḥ, ‘on account of me’]; kaṃ hetum or ko hetuḥ, ‘wherefore?’ ‘why?’, [Pāṇ. ii, 2, 23]; [Pat.]; yato hetoḥ, ‘because’; anena hetunā or iti hetoḥ, ‘for this reason’; mṛtyu-hetave, ‘in order to kill’; hetur alaukikaḥ, ‘a supernatural cause’; ifc. also = ‘having as a cause or motive’, ‘caused or effected or actuated or attracted or impelled by’ e.g. karma-hetu, ‘caused by the acts [of a former existence]’, [Mn. i, 49]; māṃsa-hetu, ‘attracted by [the smell of] flesh’, [MBh. x, 496]; karma-phala-hetu, ‘impelled by [the expectation of] the consequences of any act’, [BhP. ii, 47]; [49]), [RV.] &c. &c.
a logical reason or deduction or argument, the reason for an inference (esp. applied to the second member or Avayava of the five-membered syllogism See nyāya), [Nyāyad.]; [IW. 61]
logic (in general See hetuvidyā)
(in gram.) the agent of the causal verb, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 55] &c.
(with Buddhists) primary cause (as opp. to pratyaya, q.v.), [Sarvad.]
(with Paśu-patis) that which causes the bondage of the soul i.e. the external world and the senses, [ib.]
a means (hetubhiḥ ifc. ‘by means of’), [MBh.]
mode, manner (hetubhiḥ ifc. ‘according to’), [ib.]; [Suśr.]; [Yājñ.]
price, cost, [Rājat. v, 71]
condition, [MBh.]
(in rhet.) = kāvya-liṅga (q.v.), [Bhar.]; [Kpr.]; [Sāh.]
hetukaहेतुकmf(I)n. (only ifc.) causing, effecting, [R.]; [Suśr.]; [Hit.]
caused or effected or conditioned by, [MBh.]; [VarBṛS.] &c.
destined for, [MBh.]; [Sāṃkhyak.]
m. a cause, instrument, agent, [W.]
a logician, [MW.]
N. of an attendant of Śiva, [L.]
of a Buddha, [L.]
of a poet, [Cat.]
hetutāहेतुताhetu—tā f.
hetumatहेतुमत्hetu—mat mfn. having a reason or cause, proceeding from a cause, [Pāṇ.]; [Sāṃkhyak.]; [Sarvad.]
accompanied with arguments, provided with reasons or proofs, well-founded, [Bhag.]; [R.]; [Bhāṣāp.]
having the Hetu (or second Avayava of a syllogism), [MW.]
controverted by arguments, [ib.]
open to arguments, reasonable, [MBh.]
hetutvaहेतुत्वhetu—tva n. the state of being a hetu, causation, causativeness, existence of cause or motive, [Kāv.]; [Kathās.]; [Sarvad.]
hetuhāniहेतुहानिhetu—hāni f. omission of argument, [Kāvyād. iii, 127.]
hetuhilaहेतुहिलhetu—hila n. a partic. high number, [Buddh.]
hetuvādaहेतुवादhetu—vāda m. a statement of reasons or arguments, assigning a cause, disputation, [MBh.]; [R.]
hetuśūnyaहेतुशून्यhetu—śūnya mfn. devoid of reason, unfounded, [Pratāp.]
hetudṛṣṭiहेतुदृष्टिhetu—dṛṣṭi f. examination of reasons, scepticism, [Lalit.]
hetuduṣṭaहेतुदुष्टhetu—duṣṭa mfn. inconvincible by reasons, unreasonable (said of persons), [MBh.]
hetuvādinहेतुवादिन्hetu—vādika or hetu—vādin, m. a disputant, sceptic, [MBh.]
hetuvidyāहेतुविद्याhetu—vidyā f. ‘science of causes’, dialectics, logic (also -śāstra), [Daś.]; [Buddh.]
hetuyuktaहेतुयुक्तhetu—yukta mfn. provided with reasons, well-founded, [MBh.]
hetuśāstraहेतुशास्त्रhetu—śāstra n. (= -vidyā)
hetuśliṣṭaहेतुश्लिष्टhetu—śliṣṭa n. ? (in rhet.) the combining of causes (a method of describing similarity by using epithets common to two objects), [MW.]
hetubalikaहेतुबलिकhetu—balika mfn. strong in argument, [Sukh. i.]
heturūpakaहेतुरूपकhetu—rūpaka n. a metaphor accompanied with reasons (e.g. gāmbhīryeṇa samudro 'si, ‘because of thy profundity thou art a sea’), [Kāvyād. ii, 83]; [86.]
hetuvādikaहेतुवादिकhetu—vādika or hetu—vādin, m. a disputant, sceptic, [MBh.]
hetuvacanaहेतुवचनhetu—vacana n. a speech accompanied with arguments, [R.]
hetulakṣaṇaहेतुलक्षणhetu—lakṣaṇa n. the characteristics of a Hetu
hetumātratāहेतुमात्रताhetu—mātra-tā f. the being a mere pretext, [Kathās.]
hetumātramayaहेतुमात्रमयhetu—mātra-maya mf(I)n. serving only as a pretext, [ib.]
hetuviśeṣoktiहेतुविशेषोक्तिhetu—viśeṣokti f. (in rhet.) a ‘mention of difference’ (see viś°) accompanied with reasons, [Kāvyād. ii, 328]; [329.]
hetutvakhaṇḍanaहेतुत्वखण्डनhetu—tva—khaṇḍana n. N. of wk.
hetuśāstrāśrayaहेतुशास्त्राश्रयhetu—śās°trāśraya m. reliance on the science of dialectics, [Mn. ii, 12.]
hetuhetumadbhāvaहेतुहेतुमद्भावhetu—hetumad-bhāva m. the relation subsisting between cause and effect, [MW.]
hetulakṣaṇālokaहेतुलक्षणालोकhetu—lakṣa°ṇāloka m. N. of wk.
hetulakṣaṇaṭīkāहेतुलक्षणटीकाhetu—lakṣaṇa—ṭīkā f. N. of wk.
hetulakṣaṇaprakāśaहेतुलक्षणप्रकाशhetu—lakṣaṇa—prakāśa m. N. of wk.
hetulakṣaṇavivecanaहेतुलक्षणविवेचनhetu—lakṣaṇa—vivecana n. N. of wk.