Matsya
Meanings
name
- The first of ten successive avatars of the god Vishnu, who saved the first man Manu from a great flood in the form of a fish.
Word forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit मत्स्य (mátsya, “fish”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mátsyas.
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