Vamana : son of Kashyapa & Adīti, he was the Dwarf-Incarnation of Vishnu. Bali, the most outstanding king of Asūras, had by his Tapasyā acquired dominion of all the three worlds. To remedy this, Vishnu came to him in the form of a child-mendicant requested as alms as much land as he could step over in three paces (see Bali)
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