bali
बलि baliA sacrificial offering made to a devata; at some temples it includes animal sacrifice, and it is distinct from the naivedya returned to worshippers as prasada.
Where this term appears
- Kamakhya: The Temple of the Goddess Temples
Sacrifice, stated plainly Animal sacrifice, bali , remains part of worship at Kamakhya to this day.
- Why is a coconut broken in Hindu ceremonies? Journal
…s the Kalika Purana , whose blood-chapter the Rudhiradhyaya discusses bali in unnerving detail, the ash-gourd is the vegetable offered in place of an animal, and it is chosen for a grim and exact reason: its pa…
- Anatomy of a Hindu Temple: Gopuram to Garbhagriha Temples
Beside it sits the bali-pitha , the offering altar, often shaped like a lotus, where ritual offerings are placed.
- Devas and Asuras Deities
Bali, the asura emperor whom Vishnu dispossesses with three steps as the dwarf Vamana, is spared and installed as ruler of the netherworld, and the Bhagavata promises him the office of Indra in a coming age.
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
Java, and then Bali Sanderson's own verdict on where the tradition ended is not in India at all.
- The Dashavatara: The Ten Avatars of Vishnu Deities
Vamana , the dwarf, asks the over-mighty king Bali for only three paces of land, then swells to stride across all the worlds and reclaim them in three steps.
- The Navagraha: The Nine Planetary Powers Deities
The tradition remembers him as one-eyed, blinded in one eye by Vishnu's dwarf-incarnation when he tried, hidden in the spout of a water-pot, to block the gift that would undo his demon-pupil the king Bali.
- What is Sanatana Dharma? Essentials
… people; the rest are spread through Nepal, Mauritius, the islands of Bali and the Caribbean, and a large modern diaspora.