Kannada Vachanakarara Ankitanamagalu List

Kannada Vachanakarara Ankitanamagalu List: In Kannada Literature, Vachana Sahitya [Vachana Literature] played a significant part. Vachana Sahitya is a form of rhythmic writing in Kannada that evolved in the 11th century and flourished in the 12th century, as a part of the Sharana movement.

Vachanas are brief paragraphs, and they end with one or the other local names under which Shiva is invoked or offered Pooja. Basavaadi Sharana’s Vachanas are their experiences in the process of God realization. Authors of a particular Vachana can be identified by the style of invocation of God. They call it ‘Ankitanama’.

About 22,000 vachanas have been published. More than 200 Vachana writers [Vachanakaras] have been recorded and more than thirty of whom were women. Madara Chennaiah, an 11th-century cobbler-saint is regarded by scholars as the “father of Vachana poetry.

Kannada Vachanakarara Ankitanamagalu List

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