http://chitra.ksrikrishna.com Carnatic Musician, Writer, Mom Sat, 13 Aug 2011 09:02:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 2009-2010 chitra_sri@yahoo.com (Chitra Srikrishna) chitra_sri@yahoo.com (Chitra Srikrishna) Classical 1440 http://chitra.ksrikrishna.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/chitra_music_img.jpg http://chitra.ksrikrishna.com 144 144 Carnatic Musician, Writer, Mom Carnatic, Classical, Indian, Chitra Srikrishna, Ashok Subramaniam Chitra Srikrishna Chitra Srikrishna chitra_sri@yahoo.com no no http://chitra.ksrikrishna.com/2009/05/vachanas/ http://chitra.ksrikrishna.com/2009/05/vachanas/#comments Sat, 23 May 2009 01:22:39 +0000 chitra http://www.chitrasrikrishna.com/4/post/2009/05/vachanas.html What are vachanas? Octets (8 lines) in Kannada composed by Shaivite followers. Basavanna, Akka Mahadevi are some of the well-known vachana composers.
Vachanas reflect intense bhakthi of Shiva in simple soul-stirring lyrics and are original pieces of literature of the 12th century. They are often referred to as the Bible of the Shaivite community (Vaishnavism spread around the same period) and the simple language and poetic beauty of the vachanas were appealing to the  masses.

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