Bali (Lunar dynasty)

He rules a region named Anava, an eastern country as a member of the Chandravamsha (Lunar dynasty).

The Harivamsha states that he performs a penance to appease Brahma, who promises him that he would become a great sage and will live till the end of the age.

The deity also blesses him with great knowledge, the love of his subjects, invincibility in battle, and tells him that he would reestablish the varna system in his land.

After his rescue, the sage told him that his own wife and sons had performed the deed due to the fact that he had been unable to support them.

[3] Sudeshna, detesting the idea, decided to send her maid Dhatreyi, a Shudra woman, to lay with the sage.