The pilgrims comprising 3,436 men, 1,097 women, 95 children and 147 'sadhus' left in a cavalcade of 149 vehicles from Bhagwati Nagar base camp in Jammu at around 0500 hours for Amarnath.
With today's batch, as many as 40,180 pilgrims have left Jammu for their onward journey to the cave shrine of Amarnath.