This article concerns the Hindu avatar. For the ancient kingdom, see Matsya Rajya.

Matsya (Fish in Sanskrit) was the first Avatara of Vishnu.

According to legend, the king 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 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

A in Keshava Temple, Somnathpur, Karnataka depicts Matsya.

See also

• Deluge
• Noah's Ark

マツヤ Matsja Matsya Matsya