vachana

plural vachanas

1. In Kannada literature, a short composition of rhythmic prose.

   Each vachana ends with a reference to one of the various names of Lord Siva.

   2000, Jaydipsinh Dodiya, Indian English Poetry, page 83

   2 more examples

   The apparent simplicity of the vachanas does not imply that they are not recognised by rhetoricians.

   1996, M. Sivaramkrishna, Sumita Roy, Poet Saints of India, page 140

   In some of his vachanas, Basava noted how arbitrary the gods could be at the end of a man's life.

   2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, published 2017, page 77