ABSTRACT

Hetu-pratyaya includes the safTlskrta-dharmas that direcdy en-act their fruit (effect; phala, * kuo) . There are two types of hetu-pratyaya: la) Seeds (bijäs) residing in the müla-vijiiäna (fundamental consciousness)

having the power to 'differentiate' (eh 'a-pieh ~JJU) "the advantageous and the defiled, the non-recording, the various realms and lands, etc." This is again subdivided into two types, (i) those seeds which produce the same species as themselves in a subsequent effect or series, and (ii) those which produce the same seeds simultaneously.