As a Hindi name
हेतुता · noun · feminine
कारण या हेतु होना । कारणत्व — Śabdasāgara
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
hetu—tā
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M3 · meaning shifts "hetutā" is derived from "hetu" with the tal suffix — a related word whose meaning shifts, so both meanings are shown.
hetu &c. See p. 1303, col. 3.
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. 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. hetu 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.
hetu—tā f.
hetutā -tvaṃ Causation, the existence of cause.
Dictionary citations
hetu—tā f.
hetutā -tvaṃ Causation, the existence of cause.
hetutā f. (-tā) Causation, cause, causativeness, the abstract existence of cause or motive. E. hetu cause, tala aff.; also hetutva n. (-tvaṃ.)
hetu &c. See p. 1303, col. 3.
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. 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. hetu 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.
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