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हेतु a &c. See p. 1303, col. 3.
हेतु m. bm. ‘impulse’, motive, cause, cause of, reason for (loc. , rarely dat. or gen. ; हेतुना, हेतोः, हेतवे, हेतौ, ‘for a cause or reason’, ‘by reason of’, ‘on account of’ [with gen. or comp. e.g. मम हेतोः or मद्-धेतोः, ‘on account of me’]; कं हेतुम् or को हेतुः, ‘wherefore?’ ‘why?’ [Pāṇ. 2-2, 23] ; [Pat.] ; यतो हेतोः, ‘because’; अनेन हेतुना or इति हेतोः, ‘for this reason’; मृत्यु-हेतवे, ‘in order to kill’; हेतुर् अलौकिकः, ‘a supernatural cause’; ifc. हेतु also = ‘having as a cause or motive’, ‘caused or effected or actuated or attracted or impelled by’ e.g. कर्म-हेतु, ‘caused by the acts [of a former existence]’ [Mn. i, 49] ; मांस-हेतु, ‘attracted by [the smell of] flesh’ [MBh. x, 496] ; कर्म-फल-हेतु, ‘impelled by [the expectation of] the consequences of any act’ [BhP. ii, 47; 49] ), [RV.] &c. &c.
न्याय a logical reason or deduction or argument, the reason for an inference (esp. applied to the second member or अवयव of the five-membered syllogism See ), [Nyāyad.] ; [IW. 61]
हेतुविद्या logic (in general See )
(in gram.) the agent of the causal verb, [Pāṇ. 1-4, 55 &c.]
प्रत्यय (with Buddhists) primary cause (as opp. to q.v. ), [Sarvad.]
(with पशु-पतिs) that which causes the bondage of the soul i.e. the external world and the senses, ib.
हेतुभिः a means (ifc. ‘by means of’), [MBh.]
हेतुभिः mode, manner (ifc. ‘according to’), ib.; [Suśr.] ; [Yājñ.]
price, cost, [Rājat. v, 71]
condition, [MBh.]
काव्य-लिङ्ग (in rhet. ) = (q.v. ), [Bhar.] ; [Kpr.] ; [Sāh.]
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