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Matsya

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:''This article concerns the Hindu avatar. For the ancient kingdom, see Matsya Rajya.'' Image:Matsya_painting.jpg thumb|200px|right|''Incarnation of Vishnu as a Fish'', from a devotional text. '''Matsya''' (''Fish'' in Sanskrit) was the first Avatara of Vishnu. According to legend, the king Manu (Hinduism) Manu was washing his hands in a river when a little fish swam into his hands and begged him to save it. He put it in a jar, which it soon outgrew; he successively moved it to a tank, a river and then the ocean. The fish then warned him that a Deluge (mythology) Great Flood would occur in a week that would destroy all life. Manu therefore built a boat which the fish towed to a mountaintop when the flood came, and thus he survived along with some "seeds of life" to re-establish life on earth. The story strangely resembles Noah's Ark story. A [http://www.art-and-archaeology.com/india/mysore/kes09.html statue] in Keshava Temple, Somnathpur, Karnataka depicts Matsya.

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