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OF CULTURE
 
GOVERNMENT OF
 
Sep
 
JAYA
 
स्कृति मंत्रा
 
1
 
SL
 
MATSYA AVATARA
 
गए
 
Once, as he was offering water-libation
in the Kritamala river, there came a tiny
fish with the water into his hand.
 
कलशाप्सु निधायैनां दयालुर्निन्य आश्रमम् ।
सा तु तत्रैकरात्रेण वर्धमाना कमण्डलौ ।
स एनां तत आदाय न्यधादौदञ्चनोदके ।
तत्र क्षिप्ता मुहूर्तेन इस्तत्रयमवर्धत ।
तत आदाय सा राज्ञा क्षिप्ता [ राजन् ] सरोवरे ।
तदावृत्त्याऽऽत्मना सोऽयं महामीनोऽन्ववर्धत ।
जलाशये संमितं तं समुद्रे प्राक्षिपज्ज्ञषम् ॥
 
The compassionate Satyavrata placed
it in the water in his pitcher and took it
to his hermitage. In a night, it grew in
size in the pitcher. Satyavrata took it
out of the pitcher and placed it in the
water in a tub. Placed there, it grew to
three arms' length in a moment. It was
taken out of it and thrown into a big lake
by the king. That great fish pervaded
the lake with its body and was (still)
growing continuously. The king (then)
threw into the ocean that fish which was
filling every kind of reservoir of water.