The following Vachana looks simple and communicates an idea.
But, in another Vachana, he has said that' he was made
In another Vachana, he teaches people how to employ words in their speech.
yet they take Vachana literature seriously and make a careful study of it.
This Vachana is itself a commentary on the language employed by Basava in his writings.
Though Vachanas are not verse, it is possible to arrange each Vachana in lines of varying lengths.
A Vachana could run from three to thirty or thirty- five lines:
there were no restrictions as regards the number.
Vachana Walk curated at the Festival of Stories,
Art in Transit, Bengaluru 2016 1. South Indian Poetry Translation Workshop 2017 Keral Sahithya Academi and the Poetry Carnival Pattambi.
The poets and men of letters of the modernist school( navya) are generally not very sympathetic to old Kannada literature;
yet they take Vachana literature seriously and make a careful study of it.