has also composed Vachanas.
Many earlier writers have called Vachanas githas
He was certainly not the first to compose Vachanas.
He is perhaps the greatest writer of Vachanas in Kannada.
Vachanas are flowers which blossomed out of the native soil.
It is true that many authors have composed beautiful Vachanas.
Basava' s elder sister, Akkanagamma or Nagalambe, has also composed Vachanas.
A few of the mystics of this fifteenth century composed Vachanas.
we see more than four hundred and fifty writers composing Vachanas.
A good, representative anthology of Vachanas could be looked upon without hesitation,
There are Vachanas which we feel came out spontaneously, inspired by an event.
One advantage about the Vachanas was the ease with which they could be composed.
As a result, we see more than four hundred and fifty writers composing Vachanas.
More and more Vachanas are discovered each year with the discovery of new manuscripts.
Vachanas of the finest literary value have been composed by Akkamahadevi, Ranimahadevi, Mukthayakka and Lakkamma.
The language of these Vachanas is comparable to the sandha- bhasha of the Tp. ntric texts.
Though Vachanas are not verse,
it is possible to arrange each vachana in lines of varying lengths.
Many earlier writers have called Vachanas githas or song' s
and these songs were often set to music.
The second source of information is the Vachanas or short compositions in poetic prose of Basava himself
Basava composed some of his finest Vachanas when he walked the path of' sweet passion'(
madhura- bhava), mentioned above.
The second source of information is the Vachanas or short compositions in poetic prose of Basava himself and of his contemporaries.
It is true that there are Vachanas of his which are devoid of any literary flavour; but their number is small.
The curious thing was that all these and many more have sung the Vachanas(sayings) regarding their vocations in a very suggestive imagery.
A good, representative anthology of Vachanas could be looked upon without hesitation,
as a distinct contribution which Kannada has made to Indian and world literature.
Kallamathada Prabhudeva, a scholar of the fifteenth century, who wrote a commentary on the Vachanas, has aptly defined Vachanas as"
the spontaneous overflow of the experience of mystic happiness Shivasukha.