Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c18.s1.83

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Paes also noticed them in Vijayanagara. While describing a temple in a city called " Darcha " (identified with Dhārwār) Paes says: "It has three entrance gates, which gates are very large and beautiful, and the entrance from one of these sides, being towards the east and facing the door of the pagoda, has some structures like verandahs, small and low, where sit some Jogis..."³ In a later passage he describes the gates of the great capital and the slaughter of beasts. "There is present at the slaughter of these beasts a jogi (priest) who has charge of the temple, and as soon as they cut off the head of the sheep or goat this jogi blows a horn as a signal that the idol receives that sacrifice. Hereafter I shall tell of these jogis, what sort of men they are."⁴