Virochana fathered Bali, the most righteous of the asura kings, who inherited his grandfather Prahlada's devotion to Vishnu even as he conquered the three worlds from the gods.
The demon king Bali conquered Svarga and drove Indra from his throne. Vishnu intervened as the Vamana avatar, reclaiming the three worlds from Bali to restore Indra's sovereignty.
After Vamana claimed the three worlds with three steps, Vishnu granted the virtuous demon king Bali sovereignty over Sutala, the most splendid of the seven Patala realms, where he reigns in glory surpassing even Indra's heaven.
The Asura race counts among its ranks the mightiest adversaries of the gods — Hiranyakashipu and Hiranyaksha, the invulnerable Daitya brothers who seized heaven and earth; Bali, the generous king who conquered Indra's realm; Vritra, the drought-serpent who swallowed the cosmic waters; and Mahishasura, the shape-shifting buffalo demon who drove the Devas from their thrones.
Bali is one of the seven Chiranjivi, the virtuous demon king who gave away the three worlds to Vamana and was pressed down to Patala, granted immortality by Vishnu to rule the netherworld and return as Indra in the next Manvantara.
Vamana approached Bali at his great sacrifice and asked for three paces of land, then swelled to cosmic size — one stride covered the earth, the second all of heaven, and with nowhere left to place his third step, Bali offered his own head, surrendering his sovereignty.
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