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Matsya Avatara (मत्स्यावतारः) (view source)
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Hearing this he got an immensely large boat ready and obeyed the instructions of the fish. Within seven days rain started in torrents. Everything in the world, the moving and the not moving, were under the flood. A horn began to sprout from the head of the fish. Manu tied his boat on that horn. The fish reached the summit of the Himalayas with the boat, which was tied to the highest peak. Since the peak came to be called ‘Naubandhana Shrnga’ (The peak to which boat is tied). The rain ceased to pour. It was seen that everything in the world had been destroyed except Manu and the Saptarshis and some of the germs, saved in the boat. (This story occurs in Mahabharata Aranya Parva, Chapter 187; Agni purana, Chapter 2; bhagavata 8th skandha, Chapter 24).<ref>Vettam Mani (1975), Puranic Encyclopaedia, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, See: [https://archive.org/details/puranicencyclopa00maniuoft/page/78 Avatara].</ref>
Hearing this he got an immensely large boat ready and obeyed the instructions of the fish. Within seven days rain started in torrents. Everything in the world, the moving and the not moving, were under the flood. A horn began to sprout from the head of the fish. Manu tied his boat on that horn. The fish reached the summit of the Himalayas with the boat, which was tied to the highest peak. Since the peak came to be called ‘Naubandhana Shrnga’ (The peak to which boat is tied). The rain ceased to pour. It was seen that everything in the world had been destroyed except Manu and the Saptarshis and some of the germs, saved in the boat. (This story occurs in Mahabharata Aranya Parva, Chapter 187; Agni purana, Chapter 2; bhagavata 8th skandha, Chapter 24).<ref>Vettam Mani (1975), Puranic Encyclopaedia, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, See: [https://archive.org/details/puranicencyclopa00maniuoft/page/78 Avatara].</ref>
Satapatha Brāhmaṇa, i. 8, 1, 1 (the famous fish of the deluge legend); (Vedic index of names and subjects)
मत्स्यपुराणे १ अध्यायः ॥ दशावतारान्तर्गतप्रथमावतारः । (Kalpadruma)
an अवतार् of विष्णु;
1: भा. I. १५. ३५; X. 2. ४०; XI. 4. १८;
Br. III. 7. ४३३; २२. ६६; ५७. ६१; IV. 4. २२; २९. १३६;
M. २६०. ३९; २८५. 6; २९०. २३; Vi. I. 4. 8.
once during a Pralaya an Asura, हयग्रीव, carried off the Vedas when Hari took the form of a fish with one horn and fell into the palm of the द्रविड king Satyavrata, performing ablutions; finding that it outgrew the size of his palm he took it to a pond; it outgrew the size of the pond when it was taken to a lake; it was also too small to hold it; hence after many trials it was taken to the sea; addressed by the king the fish revealed to him his true form and warned him of the Pralaya coming in a week and prepared him to get into a boat to be sent by him and have it tied to its horn; the deluge came and Satyavrata did as was directed; when they were all floating on the sea, Matsya Hari narrated to him the मत्स्य पुराण; after the deluge Matsya killed the demon, हयग्रीव and recovered the Vedas; through his blessings Satyavrata became Vaivasvata Manu;
2: भा. VIII. ch. २४ (whole). appeared to Vaivasvata Manu during deluge; protected Manu and others;
3: Ib. II. 7. १२; XI. 4. १८; M. २२. ९२. the form of विष्णु worshipped in Ramyaka.
4: भा. V. १८. २४. (Purana Index Dev.)
कृति-दृष्ट्या-
अग्निपुराण - 1
मत्स्यपुराण - 1 (dcs frequency)
Works on Matsyavatara - Matsyavatara kathana and Matsyavatara Prabandha
== अग्निपुराणकथा ॥ Story in the Agni Purana ==
== अग्निपुराणकथा ॥ Story in the Agni Purana ==