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matsya

mátsya m. (cf. matsa and maccha) a fish, [RV.] &c. &c. (personified as a prince with the patr. sāmmada, [ŚBr.])

a partic. species of fish, [L.]

(in astron.) the figure of a figure (= timi), [Sūryas.]

a partic. luminous appearance, [VarBṛS.]

(du.) the 12th sign of the zodiac (Pisces), [Jyot.]

a partic. figure (= svastikamadhyākṛti), [Hcat.]

(pl.) N. of a people and country (which accord. to [Mn. ii, 19] forms part of Brahmarṣi), [RV.] &c. &c.

a king of the [Matsyas.] (cf. matsa)

N. of Virāṭa (as having been found by fishermen, along with his sister Matsyā or Satya-vatī, in the body of the Apsaras Adrikā, metamorphosed into a fish), [MBh.]

N. of a pupil of Deva-mitra Śākalya, [Cat.]

&c. See p. 776, col. 3.