hetuḥ

hetu 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. mamahetoḥ or maddhetoḥ, ‘on account of me’]; kaṃhetum or kohetuḥ, ‘wherefore?’ ‘why?’, Pāṇ. ii, 2, 23 ; Pat. ; yatohetoḥ, ‘because’; anenahetunā or itihetoḥ, ‘for this reason’; mṛtyuhetave, ‘in order to kill’; heturalaukikaḥ, ‘a supernatural cause’; ifc. hetu also = ‘having as a cause or motive’, ‘caused or effected or actuated or attracted or impelled by’ e.g. karmahetu, ‘caused by the acts [of a former existence]’, Mn. i, 49 ; māṃsahetu, ‘attracted by [the smell of] flesh’, MBh. x, 496 ; karmaphalahetu, ‘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

(with Paśu-pati s) that which causes the bondage of the soul i.e. the external world and the senses, ib.