("one with an upraised arm") A person who engages in a particularly gruesome kind of physical humiliation in which one or both arms are constantly elevated.
The muscles atrophy after a while, and the arms can no
longer be lowered.
Although urdhvabahu is not widely practiced, it has a long
history as a kind of ascetic discipline.
As with many forms of extreme physical austerity, this is
said to provide tremendous spiritual awareness and magical power.
This view is founded in part on the widely held belief that the desire to endure physical pain develops spiritual power, but it might also arise from the strength of will required to ca
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that would presumably have equivalents in other aspects of one's personality.
