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The Bhagavata Purana and the Garuda Purana regard Matsya as the tenth of 22 avatars and describe him as the "support of the earth". [69] [37] The Ayidhya-Mahatmya of the Skanda Purana mentions 12 avatars of Vishnu, with Matsya as the 2nd avatar. Matsya is said to support Manu, plants and others like a boat at the end of Brahma's day (pralaya). [70]
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Matsya: The fish avatar. King Vaivasvata Manu finds a little fish in the palm of his hands when performing the tarpana (water-offering). The fish asks Manu if his riches and power was enough to give the fish a nice home.
English: Matsya, the Fish-Incarnation of Vishnu; Ascribed to Mahesh of Chamba. Folio from a Dasavatara series (very similar painting about the same topic by Mahesh is in the San Diego Museum of Art, acc. no. 1990.1187). Bhuri Singh Museum
Vedanarayana Temple or Matsya Narayana Temple is a Hindu temple in Nagalapuram, Andhra Pradesh, India. It is a Vaishnava temple is dedicated to Lord Vishnu in the form of Matsya , the fish avatar, who is referred to as Matsya Narayana or Veda Narayana.
The Matsya Purana (IAST: Matsya Purāṇa) is one of the eighteen major Puranas (Mahapurana), and among the oldest and better preserved in the Puranic genre of Sanskrit literature in Hinduism. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The text is a Vaishnavism text named after the half-human and half- fish avatar of Vishnu .
A magnified image of the Dashavatara upon the Dasavatara shrine. The first step features the Matsya avatar. The second step features the Kurma and Varaha avatars. The third step features the Narasimha, Vamana, and Parashurama avatars. The fourth step features the Rama, Balarama, Krishna, and Kalki avatars.