baliṃ

bali- m. Abgabe, Steuer, Zoll, Tribut {RV +); bali-hft- Steuer zahlend, tributpflichtig (RV +), bali-harana- n. Darbringung einer Abgabe ($ü +), bali-härd- Steuer leistend (AV +). - Mi, ni., pä. bali- m. Abgabe, religiöse Darbringung, u.a. (Tu 9171. mit Verweisen; TuAdd 9178a). - Schwierig. In älterer Sprache immer mit BHAR bzw. HAR' verbunden {balim bhar in allen RV-Belegen; RV + "hit-, AV + baliin har! Sollte eine … — [Mayrhofer, s.v. bali-, p. 246]

bali m. (perhaps fr. √ bhṛ) tribute, offering, gift, oblation (in later language always with √ hṛ), RV. &c. &c.

any offering or propitiatory oblation ( esp. an offering of portions of food, such as grain, rice &c., to certain gods, semi-divine beings, household divinities, spirits, men, birds, other animals and all creatures including even lifeless objects; it is made before the daily meal by arranging portions of food in a circle or by throwing them into the air outside the house or into the sacred fire; it is also called bhūtayajña and was one of the 5 mahāyajñas, or great devotional acts; cf. RTL. 411, 421 ), GṛŚrS. ; Mn. esp. iii, 69 , 71 ; MBh. &c. (often ifc. with the object, the receiver, the time, or the place of the offering)

N. of a Daitya (son of Virocana ; priding himself on his empire over the three worlds, he was humiliated by Viṣṇu , who appeared before him in the form of a Vāmana or dwarf, son of Kaśyapa and Aditi and younger brother of Indra , and obtained from him the promise of as much land as he could pace in three steps, whereupon the dwarf expanding himself deprived him of heaven and earth in two steps, but left him the sovereignty of Pātāla or the lower regions), MBh. ; Pur. &c. ( cf. IW. 328 )