Sūta explained:: When the three worlds were measured up (by Vāmana’s three steps) Bali was bound over by Vāmana. When the groups of the Devas were rejected, Hiraṇyākṣa was killed in a dual combat. That Daitya who had great strength and virility and who had never been defeated, was split into two by Varāha (Boar) with his curved teeth.