Jogi: Deccan

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Jogi

This article is an extract from THE CASTES AND TRIBES OF H. E. H. THE NIZAM'S DOMINIONS BY SYED SIRAJ UL HASSAN Of Merton College, Oxford, Trinity College, Dublin, and Middle Temple, London. One of the Judges of H. E. H. the Nizam's High Court of Judicature : Lately Director of Public Instruction. BOMBAY THE TlMES PRESS 1920 Indpaedia is an archive. It neither agrees nor disagrees with the contents of this article. Secondly, this has been scanned from a book. You can help by sending the corrected version/ additional information to the Facebook page, Indpaedia.com. All information used will be duly acknowledged.

Jogi, Yogi (Sanskrit) — a class of religious mendicants whose principal object of worship is Siva, under the form of Bhairava. Tfie sect was founded by Gorakhnath, a contemporary of Kabir, who flourished early in the fifteenth century and is now recognised as an incarnation of the god Mahadev. It is said to include tweliJe orders, of disciples, who are to be distinguished from one another by rings of different materials, which they wear in their ears as religious symbols. Of these twelve groups, only two, as being numerous in these Dominions, have been treated in this article. They are : (1) Davre Jogis, who belong to the Navanath Sect, and (2) Ravals, who are Adinath Siva jogis. Both of these sects seem to have been originally recruited from among the Maratha Kunbis and have, .at the present day. developed into independent castes.