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12H13(VAMANA)31Vamana, assuming gigantic form, jumps with one step over the whole world, and with a second step jumps to heaven, thus humiliating the demon-king Bali, who had offered to him as much land as he could step in three paces  

Subject

  • Bali
  • Buddhism
  • demi-god
  • demon
  • dwarf
  • giant
  • gods
  • heaven
  • hero
  • Hinduism
  • humiliation
  • incarnation
  • Jainism
  • jumping
  • king
  • non-Christian religion
  • religion
  • step
  • supernatural
  • transformation
  • Vamana
  • Vishnu
  • world

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  • 12H13(VAMANA)31

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http://iconclass.org/12H13%28VAMANA%2931

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