vachana

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English

Noun

vachana (plural vachanas)

  1. In Kannada literature, a short composition of rhythmic prose.
    • 1996, M. Sivaramkrishna, Sumita Roy, Poet Saints of India, page 140:
      The apparent simplicity of the vachanas does not imply that they are not recognised by rhetoricians.
    • 2000, Jaydipsinh Dodiya, Indian English Poetry, page 83:
      Each vachana ends with a reference to one of the various names of Lord Siva.
    • 2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, published 2017, page 77:
      In some of his vachanas, Basava noted how arbitrary the gods could be at the end of a man's life.