Urdhvapata, Ūrdhvapāta: 1 definition

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Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Ūrdhvapāta (ಊರ್ಧ್ವಪಾತ):—[noun] the diverting of one’s energy of a primitive impulse, esp. sexual, into a culturally higher or socially more acceptable, activity; sublimation.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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