The Vachana movement in Kannada literature stood for:
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Correct answer: A. progressive values
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The twelfth-century Virashaiva vachanas of Basavanna, Akka Mahadevi and Allama Prabhu rejected caste, ritual and Sanskrit hierarchy for devotion in the common tongue.
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