Dear Giridhar,
As far as I know, there is one, edited by Dr. L.
Basavaraju, and it is very useful with all the variant
readings. Long back a book called "Dasimarya
Prashasti" was published by, I think, Kannada Sahitya
Parishat, and it too, I remember, has collection of
Dasimayya's vachanas. Basavaraju's book, if i remember
rightly, was published by Geetha Bookhouse, Mysore.One
more source would be the Samagra Vachana Sangraha
published by Govt. of Karnataka. But it doesn't have
variant readings. If you can get Karnataka University
publication, they have published 3 volumes of Sakala
Puratanara Vachanagalu, and in one of them you can
find Dasimayya, it would be the best source.
Just for your information, I was planning to put
Dasimayya's text after I completed Basavanna.
olnswamy
--- giridhar <giridhar/ciil@...>
wrote:
>
> The vachana literature is the wisdom literature
> of Kannada and indeed of the world.
> The vachana lit among other things proves my
> intensely held belief
> that
> language as formal code per se is never an end
> anywhere except in
> language pathology, language pedagogy and paediatric
> language
> gymnastics because meaning is the raison detre of
> human
> language.Literary scholars have all got it wrong
> when they aver that
> language is very important in literature as if it is
> not important
> elsewhere.
>
> I propose to translate into English Devara
> Dasimayya's vachanas.i am
> using a collection which is published by the devanga
> sangha in
> bangalore
> Is there any better collection of his prose-poems?
>
> Giridhar
>
>
>
>
>



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