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					Bali,[cp.Vedic bali; regarding etym.Grassmann connects it with bhṛ] 1.religious offering,oblation D.II,74 (dhammika); A.IV,17,19; Sn.223; Mhvs 36,88 (particularly to subordinate divinities,cp.Mhvs.trsln 263); DhA.II,14 (v.l.°kamma).--pañca° the fivefold offering,i.e.ñāti°,atithi°,pubbapeta°,rāja°,devatā°,offering to kinsfolk,guests,the departed,the king,the gods; A.II,68; III,45.-- 2.tax,revenue (cp.Zimmer,Altind.Leben 166 & Fick,Sociale Gliederung 75) D.I,135,142; J.I,199 (daṇḍa° fines & taxes),339; DhA.I,251 (daṇḍa°).-- 3.Np.of an Asura D.II,259.  --kamma offering of food to bhūtas,devas & others J.I,169,260; II,149,215; IV,246 (offering to tutelary genii of a city.In this passage the sacrifice of a human being is recommended); V,99,473; SnA 138; Mhbv 28.--karaṇa oblation,offering of food PvA.81; VvA.8 (°pīṭha,reading doubtful,v.l.valli°).--kāraka offering oblations J.I,384.--°ṅkatā one who offers (the five) oblations A.II,68.--paṭiggāhaka receiving offerings,worthy of oblations J.II,17 (yakkha; interpreted by Fick,Sociale Gliederung 79 as “tax-collector," hardly justified); f.°ikā A.III,77 (devatā),260 (id.),cp.BSk.balipratigrāhikā devatā Divy 1.--pīḷita crushed with taxes J.V,98.--puṭṭha a crow (cp.Sk.balipuṣṭa “fed by oblations") Abhp 638.--vadda (cp.Sk.balivarda,after the Pali?) an ox,esp.an ox yoked to the plough or used in ploughing (on similes with b.see J.P.T.S.1907,349) S.I,115,170; IV,163 sq.,282 sq.; A.II,108 sq.; Sn.p.13 (cp.SnA 137); Dh.152=Th.1,1025; J.I,57; V,104 (Sāliyo b.phālena pahaṭo); Vism.284 (in simile of their escape from the ploughman); DhA.I,24 (dhuraṁ vahanto balivaddassa,v.l.balibaddassa); VvA.258 (vv.ll.°baddha & °bandha).The spelling balibadda occurs at Vin.IV,312.--sādhaka tax collector,tax gatherer J.IV,366; V,103 sq.--haraṇa taking oblations A.V,79 (°vanasaṇḍa).(Page 483)