Brahmins started to settle down in Kerala sometime around this time. People were practicing hunter gathering, subsistence agriculture and the chiefs also practiced plunder as a form of livelihood. It was ruled by many chiefs some more prominent than others. From there he is supposed to visit his subjects once a year, celebrated as Onam festival.Īround the beginning of the Common Era, Kerala was a land inhabited by tribes without a definite state. Vamana did so and sent him down to Patala, the underworld. Then he asked where to place his third feet and Maveli asked Vamana to place the final step on his head, for he had no other left. With the second, he claimed all of heaven. With one footstep, he measured all of the earth. Vamana grew in size until he towered above the heavens. Maveli asked Vamana to measure out his desired three parcels of land. Maveli asked Vamana what gift he desired and Vamana said he only needed the land equivalent to three pieces of his feet. He promised a solution and went to Maveli as a dwarf Brahmin (Vamana) while Maveli was conducting a yaga (Vedic sacrifice). This made the god’s jealous as people stopped worshipping them and was still prosperous and they complained to the chief god Lord Vishnu, one among the trinity.
(The rest of the song is omitted as it is irrelevant)
Everybody was happy in the kingdom there was no discrimination on the basis of caste or class. The King was wise, judicious and extremely generous and it was the golden age of Kerala. The legend says that Kerala was once, long ago, ruled by a king, Maveli (Sanskritised as Mahabali).
The land of Kerala is in deep South India and Maveli is the legend of that land.
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