 Similarly, John Fryer in his 1698 "A New Account of East-India and Persia" recorded a "Jougie" who had a gold ring in his "Virile Member" (his penis) to keep him from sexual activity, and wrote of ascetics who held postures until their limbs withered; he called such people "Vagabonds" who pretended to be pious.Early in the 1900s, the occultist Aleister Crowley travelled to India, devoting himself to "Rāja yoga" at the Meenakshi Temple in Madurai.He learnt some asanas and studied Patanjali's "Yoga Sutras".