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Matsya
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Borrowed from
Sanskrit
मत्स्य
(
mátsya
,
“
fish
”
)
, from
Proto-Indo-Iranian
*mátsyas
.
Noun
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Matsya
(
Hinduism
,
Hindu mythology
)
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
.
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