hetu

A properly formulated Nyāya argument has three components: thesis, reason (hetu) and example

Analytic Philosophy in Early Modern India Ganeri, Jonardon 2009

Causes (rgyu, Skt. hetu) bring about the production or arising of something.

Causes, Conditions, and Results 2005

Samudayah is explained by the commentator as equivalent to hetu.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

And though the importance of cause (hetu) is often emphasized, the causal relation is understood in a wider sense than is usual in our idiom.

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896

Nor is the Pûrvapakshin right in maintaining that the Chândogya passage is of the nature of an Inference; for it does not state a reason (hetu -- which is the essential thing in an Inference).

The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881

Some of the terracotta seals bear the depiction of stupa, snake and lotus flower along with inscribed Buddhist creed "ya dharme prabhavah hetu".

Analysis 2010

"Devo vassatu - kalena; sassa sampatti hetu ca; pito bhavatu loko ca - raja bhvatu dhammiko!"

Asian Tribune 2008

(tr. after Bugault), but here the hetu-pratyaya or causal condition is in question, which is not the kind of condition involved in talk of temporal relations.

Joseph S. O'Leary homepage 2009

In chapter 1 the ray from between the Buddha's eyebrows illuminates bodhisattvas 'who plied the Bodhisattva-course with ability, due to their earnest belief in numerous and various lessons and the fundamental ideas' (Kern, p. 8); aneka-vividha-sravana-arambana-adhimukti-hetu-kâranair upâya-kausalyair bodhisattva-caryâm caranti (p. 5); 'who, through various causes and conditions and various types of faith and understanding and in various forms and aspects were carrying out the way of the bodhisattva'

Joseph S. O'Leary homepage 2008

There is a mantra called “the essence of dependent arising” (rten-‘brel snying-po) that we frequently recite: Om ye dharma hetu prabhava, hetun teshan tathagathohya vadate, teshanca yo nirodha, evam vadi maha-shramanaye svaha.

Explanation of The Foundation for Good Qualities ��� Session Four: The Intermediate Scope of Motivation Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche I 1982