मत्स्य [मद्-स्यनः Uṇ. 4. 2.]
1 A fish; शूले मत्स्यानिवापक्ष्यन् दबलोन्व लवत्तराः Ms. 7. 20.
2 A particular variety of fish.
3 A king of the Matsyas.
−त्म्यौ (dual) The sign Pisces of the zodiac.
−त्स्याः (pl.) N. of a country and its inhabitants. the country of Virāṭa q. v.; Ms. 2. 19.
−Comp.
−अक्षका, −अक्षी N. of a kind of Soma plant. −अद्, -अदन,
−आद a. feeding on fish, a fish-eater.
−अवतारः the first of the ten incarnations of Viṣṇu; (during the reign of the seventh Manu. the whole earth, which had become corrupt was swept away by a flood. and all living beings perished except the pious Manu and the seven sages who were saved by Viṣṇu in the form of a fish); cf. Jayadeva's description of this avatāra: प्रलयपयोधिजले धृतवानसि वेदं विहितवहित्र- चरित्रमखेदं । कशव धृतमीनशरीर जय जग- दीश हरे Gīt. 1.
−अशनः 1. a king-fisher. −2. one who eats fish.
−असुरः N of a demon. −आधानी,
−धानी a fish-basket (used by fishermen).
−उदरिन् m. an epithet of Virāṭa.
−उदरी an epithet of Satyavatī.
−उदरीयः an epithet of Vyāsa.
−उपजीविन् m., आजीवः a fisherman.
−करंडिका a fish-basket.
−गंध a. having the smell of fish. (
−धा) N. of Satyavatī.
−घंटः a kind of fishsauce.
−घातः 1. the occupation of a fisherman. −2. a fisherman. −घा- तिन्, −जीवत्, −जीविन् m. a fisherman.
−जालं a fishing-net.
−देशः the country of the Matsyas.
−द्वादशी N. of the twelfth day in the month of मार्गशीर्ष.
−नारी ‘half-fish, half-woman’, an epithet of Satyavatī. −नाशकः −ना- शनः an osprey.
−पुराणं N. of one of the eighteen Purāṇas. −बंधः, −बंधिन् m. a fisherman.
−बंधनं a fish-hook, an angle. −बंध (धि) नी a fish-basket. −रंकः, −रंगः, −रंगकः a halcyon, king-fisher.
−राजः 1. the Rohita fish. −2. N. of Virāṭa −वेधनं, −वेधनी an angle.
−वेधनी a cormorant.
−संघातः a shoal of fish.
मत्स्य or विराट N. of a country lying to the west of Dholpur; the Pāṇḍavas are said to have entered it from the banks of the Yamunā through the land of the Rohitakas and Sūrasenas towards the north of Daśārṇa. Vairāṭa, the capital of Virāṭa, is probably the same as Bairat 40 miles north of Jeypore.