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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 8, Ch. 24]
naitan me svastaye rājann udakam salilaukasaḥ nidhehi rakṣā-yogena hrade mām avidāsini
na—not; etat—this; me—unto Me; svastaye—comfortable; rājan—O King; udakam—water; salila-okasaḥ—because I am a big aquatic; nidhehi—put; rakṣā-yogena—by some means; hrade—in a lake; mām—Me; avidāsini—perpetual.
TRANSLATION
The fish then said: O King, I am a large aquatic, and this water is not at all suitable for Me. Now kindly find some way to save Me. It would be better to put Me in the water of a lake that will never reduce.
TEXT 23
इत्युक्तःसोऽनयन्मत्स्यं तत्र तत्राविदासिनि ।
जलाशयेऽसंमितं तं समुद्रे प्राक्षिपञ्चषम् ॥२३॥
ity uktaḥ so 'nayan matsyam tatra tatrāvidāsini jalāśaye 'sammitam tam samudre prākṣipaj jhaṣam
iti uktaḥ—thus being requested; saḥ—the King; anayat—brought; matsyam—the fish; tatra—therein; tatra—therein; avidāsini—where the water never diminishes; jala-āśaye—in the reservoir of water; asammitam—unlimited; tam—unto the fish; samudre—in the ocean; prākṣipat—threw; jhaṣam—the gigantic fish.
TRANSLATION
When thus requested, King Satyavrata took the fish to the largest reservoir of water. But when that also proved insufficient, the King at last threw the gigantic fish into the ocean.