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    Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 101.
    ahetu m. (-tuḥ) Absence of cause or reason.

    E. a neg. hetu cause.

    Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 80, col. 1.
    a-hetu (tuḥ) 2. m. Absence of cause.

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1st ed.)

    ☞ p. 110, col. 1.
    ahetu a-hetu, us, m. absence of cause or

    reason. —Ahetu-tā, f. or ahetu-tva, am, n. absence

    of cause, reason, or necessity.

    Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 219, col. 2.
    ahetu a. Causeless, spontaneous, involuntary; ahetuḥ pakṣapāto yaḥ U. 5. 17.

    — tuḥ Absence of cause and reason.

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (2nd ed.)

    ☞ p. 125, col. 3.
    a-hetu m. absence of cause or reason, MBh. xii, 10511
    ☞ p. 125, col. 3.
    not a real or sound argument, Nyāyad.
    ☞ p. 125, col. 3.
    (in rhetoric) a certain figure of speech.

    Śabdasāgara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 83, col. 2.
    ahetu

    m. (-tuḥ) Absence of cause or reason.

    E. a neg. hetu cause.

    Apte Enlarged Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 303.
    ahetu a. Causeless, spontaneous, involuntary; ahetuḥ pakṣapāto yaḥ U.5.17. -tuḥ Absence of cause and reason. -Comp. -samaḥ A particular sophism tending to prove an argument to be untenable, Nyāyadarśana.

    Stchoupak Dictionnaire Sanscrit-Français

    ☞ p. 106, col. 2.
    a-hetu- m. absence de cause; a. spontané.

    Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

    ☞ vol. 5, p. 1085.
    ahetu (3. a + hetu) eine best. rhetorische Figur Verz. d. Oxf. H. 208,b,4.

    Böhtlingk Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 157, col. 2.
    ahetu m.

    — 1) keine Ursache , — Veranlassung MBH. 12,285,27.

    — 2) kein gültiger Grund , ein untaugliches Argument NYĀYAS. 5,1,30. Comm. zu 1,1,37.

    — 3) eine best. rhetorische Figur.

    Schmidt Nachträge zum Sanskrit-Wörterbuch

    ☞ p. 386, col. 3.
    ahetu °Adj. ohne Motiv erfolgend = spontan, Uttarar. V, 17a.

    Vācaspatyam

    ☞ p. 586, col. 1.
    ahetu pu0 na0 ta0 . 1 hetubhinne na0 ba0 . 2 hetuśūnye tri0 vā
    kap ahetuko'pyuktārthe . hetuḥ kāraṇamuddeśyañca . kāraṇañca
    kāryyāvyavahitakṣaṇe kāryyādhikaraṇe sthitiśālī yathā ghaṭā-
    dikaṃprati mṛttikādi kaṭakādikaṃ suvarṇṇādi . tayostada-
    dhikaraṇetatpūrvvaṃ sthitatvāt tathātvam . kāraṇatāgrāhakau ca
    anvayavvatirekau . matabhede tadgrāhakāṇi kāraṇaśabde vakṣyante