PLATE SIX
Once, millions of years ago, the Supreme Personality of Godhead appeared in the form of a fish and warned the pious King Satyavrata of an impending inundation. After receiving instructions from Lord Matsya, King Satyavrata spread a mat of  kuśa  grass, sat down and meditated on the Lord for seven days. Thereafter, gigantic clouds pouring incessant water swelled the ocean more and more. Thus the ocean began to overflow onto the land and inundate the entire world. Then, just as the Lord had predicted, when the world was flooded by the devastating water a magnificent boat mysteriously appeared before King Satyavrata and the seven great sages. ( pp. 253-254 )