vachana

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.