As a deity name
Name 114 of the Hanuman Sahasranāma — Rasvin Samhita / Brahmanda Purana, as taught by Lord Ram / Sages
As a Hindi name
No reading on this path — this spelling has no entry in our Hindi sources, and no near neighbour is attested there either. We say so rather than invent one.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
‘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…
Scripturally attestedWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "hetave" is the dative of "hetu" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
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.
Caveats
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