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OF CULTURE
 
GOVERNMENT OF
 
Sep
 
JAYA
 
स्कृति मंत्रा
 
1
 
SL
 
MATSYA AVATARA
 
गए
 
O
nce, 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 स्तत्रयमवर्धत ।

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

threw into the ocean that fish which was
filling every kind of reservoir of water.