vacana

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In South Asian arts: Period of the Tamil Cōḷa Empire (10th–13th century)
…a new Kannada genre, the vacana (“saying” or “prose poem”), had come into being with the Vīraśaiva saints. In the language of the people, the saints expressed their radical views on religion and society, rejected both Brahminical ritualism and Jaina ascetic world negation, called all men to the anubhāva (“experience”)…
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