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Festival story · 2 tellings · contested

Mahabali comes home for Onam

Kerala remembers Bali as the just king pushed under the earth by Vishnu's dwarf, who returns each year at harvest to see his people.

Mahabali, Vishnu, Bali

Pan-India South India