[translation-san] {LCh,L,MSA,MV} hetu

[translation-san] {C,MV} hetutva

[translation-san] {LCh,MSA,MV,C} kāraṇa

[translation-san] {C,MSA,MV} upaniṣad

[translation-san] {C} (=hetu-bhāva)

[translation-san] {MSA} anvaya

[translation-san] {MSA,MV} nimitta

[translation-san] {MSA} nimittatva

[translation-san] {C} nidāna

[translation-san] {C} etan-nidānā

[translation-san] {C} kiṃ nidānam

[translation-san] {C} tato nidānam

[translation-san] {C} tan-nidānam

[translation-san] {C} pracāra

[translation-san] {C} pravartate (=pravartayati)

[translation-san] {MSA} smig rgyu = marīci

[translation-eng] {Hopkins} cause; [as verb]: wander; move; go; [following a verb, indicates]: to be done

[translation-eng] {C} comparison; reason; for the sake of; linked with; foundation; Origins; because; wherefrom and for what reason?; on the strength of that; as a result of; that link; observation; performance; proceeds; takes place; move forward; spread;causality

[definition-bod] mtshan nyid1 skyed byed/ 2 phan 'dogs byed/

[definition-eng] Def.:(1) producer; (2) benefitter

[division-bod] sgras brjod rigs kyi sgo nas dbye ba/ 1 byed rgyu 2 lhan cig byung ba'i rgyu 3 skal mnyam gyi rgyu 4 mtshungs ldan gyi rgyu 5 kun 'gro'i rgyu 6 rnam smin gyi rgyu

[division-eng] Terminological Div.: (1) creative cause; (2) co-arisen cause; (3) cause of equal/similar lot; (4) associational cause; (5) omnipresent cause; (6) fruitional cause

[comments] Comment: rgyu is used to make a verbal object noun as in bsgrub rgyu which means the same as bsgrub bya (that which is to be accomplished/achieved/practiced) or, in spoken Tibetan, bsgrub ya.