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Mahabali (IAST: Mahābalī), also known as Bali, Indrasenan, or Māveli, is a daitya king featured in Hinduism. He is the grandson of Prahlada , and a descendant of the sage Kashyapa . There are many versions of his legend in ancient texts such as the Shatapatha Brahmana , Ramayana , Mahabharata , and several Puranas .
Vali (Sanskrit: वाली) also known as Bali, was a vanara and the king of Kishkindha in the Hindu epic Ramayana. He was the son of Indra , the husband of Tara , the elder brother of Sugriva , and the father of Angada through his wife, Tara .
Balipratipada (Bali-pratipadā), also called as Bali-Padyami, Padva, Virapratipada or Dyutapratipada, is the fourth day of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights. [2] [3] It is celebrated in honour of the notional return of the daitya-king Bali (Mahabali) to earth. Balipratipada falls in the Gregorian calendar months of October or November.
Images of Vamana, Narasimha, Hayagriva, and Varaha should be placed in the south-east, south-west, north-west, and north-east, respectively (43.2) Vamana is stated to bear 'the Conch, Disc, Mace, and Lotus' (48.4) Agni details the means of worshipping Vamana, via observation of the Sravanadvadasi Vrata in the month of Bhadrapada (189.3-15)
Bali marries Sudeshna. The Harivamsha states that he performs a penance to appease Brahma , who promises him that he would become a great sage and will live till the end of the age . The deity also blesses him with great knowledge, the love of his subjects, invincibility in battle, and tells him that he would reestablish the varna system in his ...
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According to the traditions "Vishnu, in the form of Chakra, was held as the ideal of worship for Kings desirous of obtaining Universal Sovereignty", [6]: 48 a concept associated with the Bhagavata Puranas, a religious sanction traceable to the Gupta period, [7] which also led to the chakravartin concept.
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