The next morning King Manu went to have a look at the fish. He was surprised to see the fish had grown overnight. The fish now almost filled the whole bowl. King Manu transferred the fish into a much larger bowl. The next morning the fish had almost filled up the new large bowl as well….King Manu immediately realized that this was no ordinary fish. Something in him told him that this fish was the God Himself. He knelt down and prayed. Lord Vishnu (in the form of the fish) tells him that in seven days there is going to be a huge flood which will destroy the entire planet. Hence it is important that all the species on this planet be preserved. To enable this to happen He asks Manu to build a huge boat and fill it up with samples of every species and then abode the boat and set it sail on the ocean and wait for Him.
The king and his queen started a new life using the samples of various species and were able to create a new life on earth.
This story is very similar to Noah and his Ark story in Christianity. There is also apparently a similar story in the Middle Eastern culture. So I guess there is a story in almost every culture regarding the great flood which happened many many millions of years ago.
It is also said that there is a reason that this is the first avatar. The ten incarnations have a strong resemblance to Darwin’s theory of evolution. This avatar signifies the start of life…The life in water, as an amphibian, is the earliest known life on the earth - and hence Lord Vishnu picked a fish as his first avatar.
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