Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c18.s1.88

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Barbosa was not far wrong when he said that these Jōgis, given over to a wandering life, never settled in one spot. Nevertheless at Kadri in Tuḷuva-nāḍu, a province of the Vijayanagara Empire, the Jōgis have had one of their most famous centres. Pietro della Valle in A. D. 1624 visited "the famous Hermitage of Cadiri", to see the "Batinate, (Pāṭh Nāth?) called King of the Gioghi, who lives at this day in his narrow limits of that Hermitage, impoverished by Venk-tapā Naieka."²