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Sharanu Sharanarthi! Welcome to the web page of “Shivasharanara Vachana Samputa” - a unique web application on the Vachana Literature of 12th century A.D. in Karnataka (the Kannada speaking State in the Southern part of India). The great socio-religious leader of that time was Basavanna who fought against social inequalities, caste system and advocated religious freedom. The present version consists of his thoughts called Vachanas and also of his contemporaries namely, Akkamahadevi, Allamaprabhu, Siddharama and Channabasavanna in the original Kannada script with Roman transliteration. Our web application has also Search and Sort capabilities. All together, there are 22,000 Vachanas of all the Shivasharanas. The English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil and Urdu translations are available for the Vachanas of Basavanna only. Some of the Vachanas of Basavanna are very difficult to understand. We have,therefore, planned to provide Kannada explanation also. This web application is carefully developed for the use of common readers and also for scholars by none other than the religious head, Dr Shivamurthy Swamiji of Sri Taralabalu Jagadguru Brihanmath, Sirigere. This version consisting of more than 22,000 Vachanas of all the Shivasharanas is released on the happy occasion of Basava Jayanthi celebrations on 3rd May 2022.

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