Noun
vachana (plural vachanas)
In Kannada literature, a short composition of rhythmic prose.
Sastri (1955), p362 Narasimhacharya, (1988), p20 He was one of the earliest Virashaiva writers who was not part of the Vachana literary tradition. Source: Internet
These three social reformers did so by the literary means of 'Vachana Sahitya' which is very famous for its simple, straight forward and easily understandable Kannada language. Source: Internet