You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Search found 32 books and stories containing Matsya Purana, Matsya Purāṇa (plurals include: Matsya Puranas, Matsya Purāṇas). See also (Relevant definitions)įull-text ( +4393): Utpalavartaka, Nilakunda, Candrika, Citranatha, Dhruvashva, Javina, Saubhagyashtaka, Gardabhi, Shatahva, Karnamoti, Alambakshi, Shatananda, Sarpakarṇi, Mahasuri, Chagalanda, Jvalamukhi, Raktakampana, Rudrasusata, Rudreshi, Langalavati. A number of Hindu scholars have taken the progression of forms assumed by Vishnu in the narrative, from fish to turtle to boar to "half-man and half-lion", to dwarf human, to human with an axe, to princely human, to Krishna (bringer of scripture) to Buddha (the enlightened one) to Kalki (the future human yet to come), as an analogy for evolution. In the end, Manu and all those he saves are safe in a large ship that he builds, atop the high Malaya Mountains. This Purana is the story of the Matsya Avatar (incarnation) of Lord Vishnu, Manu who was the King of Dravidadesa, and the first Mahapralaya (Great Deluge).
The Padma Purana categorizes Matsya Purana as a Tamas Purana (Purana of darkness or ignorance). Matsya Purana contains a comprehensive description of Manu and Matsya avatar. During the period of mahapralaya, Lord Vishnu had taken Matsya Avatar (fish incarnation) to save the seeds of all lives and Manu. It narrates the story of Matsya, the first of ten major Avatars of the Hindu god Vishnu. The scripture is a composite work dated to c. The fourteen thousand shlokas of the Maysya Purana are divided into two hundred and ninety-one chapters (adhyaya). And the shortest Purana, the Markandeya Purana, has only nine thousand.
The longest Purana, the Skanda Purana, has eighty-one thousand. Matsya Purana (“the ancient chronicle of Matsya”) is one of the oldest of the 18 post-Vedic Hindu scriptures called the Puranas. The Matsya Purana is a medium-length Purana, is comprises of fifteen thousand couplets. Matsya Purana in Hinduism glossary Source: WikiPedia: Hinduism
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