Brown, known for his research on Vemana, estimates his year of birth to be 1652 based on some of his verses.

[2] Vemana was born in Gandikota, Kadapa district in Andhra Pradesh.

[citation needed] There is a headstone marking the grave of Yogi Vemana in Katarupalli (Kadiri town), a village in Kadiri taluk, Anantapur district, Andhra Pradesh.

Many lines of Yogi Vemana's poems are now colloquial phrases of the Telugu language.

[3] His poems follow various themes: social, moral, satirical and mystical.