Uchiwamaki
(fan festival):
Ud
na
.
1
In Hinduism, ‘breathing upwards’, the
pr
a
which unites the physical and metaphysical aspects of human form.
2
In Buddhism (solemn utterances): see
KHUDDAKA NIK
YA
.
Ud
s
(Pañj
b
, ‘withdrawn, dejected’, from Skt.,
udas
, ‘grief’).
1
Ascetic Sikh order. The Ud
s
s revere Gur
N
nak
and the
di Granth
, claiming as their founder Sr
Chand, Gur
N
nak's unmarried elder son. They emphasize celibacy (
brahmacarya
) in contrast to the mainstream Sikh ideal of
grahast
, and so perpetuate
N
th
principles within Sikhism.
2
Gur
N