- གཏོར་མ།
- བ་ལཱི།
- བ་ལི།
- སྟོབས་ཅན།
- སྟོབས་ཆེན།
- སྟོབས་ལྡན།
- stobs ldan
- stobs can
- gtor ma
- stobs chen
- ba lI
- bala
- bali
- balin
- Note: this data is still being sorted
- Person
A lord of the asuras; son of Virocana.
A lord of the asuras; son of Virocana.
- Bali
- སྟོབས་ཆེན།
- stobs chen
- bali
A nāga king.
- Bali
- སྟོབས་ཅན།
- stobs can
- bali
Bali wrested control of the world from the devas, establishing a period of peace and prosperity with no caste distinction. Indra requested Viṣṇu to use his wiles so that the devas could gain the world back from him. He appeared as a dwarf asking for two steps of ground, was offered three and then traversed the world in two steps. Bali, keeping faithful to his promise, accepted the banishment of the asuras into the underworld. A great Bali festival in his honor is held annually in southern India. In The Basket Display (Kāraṇḍavyūha Sūtra, Toh 116), he is described as abusing his power by imprisoning the kṣatriyas, so that Viṣṇu has just cause to banish him to the underworld.
- Bali
- གཏོར་མ།
- gtor ma
- bali
Bali wrested control of the world from the devas, establishing a period of peace and prosperity with no caste distinction. Indra requested Viṣṇu to use his wiles so that the devas could gain the world back from him. He appeared as a dwarf asking for two steps of ground, was offered three, and then traversed the world in two steps. Bali, keeping faithful to his promise, accepted the banishment of the asuras into the underworld. A great festival is held in Bali’s honor annually in South India. In the Kāraṇḍavyūha, he abuses his power by imprisoning the kṣatriyas, so that Viṣṇu has cause to banish him to the underworld.
- Bali
- སྟོབས་ཅན།
- stobs can
- bali
A ruler of the asuras.
A lord of the asuras, son of Virocana.
An asura king. Indian literary sources describe how Bali wrested control of the world from the devas, establishing a period of peace and prosperity with no caste distinction. Indra requested Viṣṇu to use his wiles to gain back the world from him for the devas. Viṣṇu appeared as a dwarf asking for two steps of ground, was offered three, and then traversed the world in two steps. Bali, remaining faithful to his promise, accepted the banishment of the asuras into the underworld. A great Bali festival in his honor is held annually in South India.
An asura king. Indian literary sources describe how Bali wrested control of the world from the devas, establishing a period of peace and prosperity with no caste distinction. Indra requested Viṣṇu to use his wiles to gain back the world from him for the devas. Viṣṇu appeared as a dwarf asking for two steps of ground, was offered three, and then traversed the world in two steps. Bali, remaining faithful to his promise, accepted the banishment of the asuras into the underworld. A great Bali festival in his honor is held annually in South India.
(Toh 555: ba li)
An asura king. Indian literary sources describe how Bali wrested control of the world from the devas, establishing a period of peace and prosperity with no caste distinction. Indra requested Viṣṇu to use his wiles to gain back the world from him for the devas. Viṣṇu appeared as a dwarf asking for two steps of ground, was offered three, and then traversed the world in two steps. Bali, remaining faithful to his promise, accepted the banishment of the asuras into the underworld. A great Bali festival in his honor is held annually in South India.
(Toh 555: ba li)
- Bali
- བ་ལཱི།
- ba lI
- bali
An asura king defeated by Vāmana.
- Balin
- སྟོབས་ཅན།
- stobs can
- balin
A lord of the asuras; a member of the Buddha’s retinue.
- Balin
- སྟོབས་ཅན།
- stobs can
- balin
A ruler of the demigods.
- Balin
- སྟོབས་ལྡན།
- stobs ldan
- balin
One of the kings of the asuras.
- Balin
- སྟོབས་ཅན།
- stobs can
- balin
An asura lord.
- Bala
- སྟོབས་ལྡན།
- stobs ldan
- bala
A leader of the asuras.