The pilgrims comprising 1,760 men, 383 women, 24 children and 150 sadhus left in a cavalcade of 61 vehicles from Bhagwati Nagar base camp in Jammu at around 0500 hours for Amarnath.
The convoy of yatra has already crossed Chanderkote on Jammu-Srinagar National Highway towards base camps of Pahalgam in Kashmir Valley.
With today's batch, as many as 82,963 pilgrims have left Jammu for their onward journey to the cave shrine.
