The corpus record — Sanskrit
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, 2
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1. هeتُ
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, 2
2. هeتُ
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
3. هeتُ
(with Paśu-pati s) that which causes the bondage of the soul i.e. the external world and the senses, ib.
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