"After keeping him thus, Mann carried the fish to the sea. In the year
indicated Mann built a vessel and worshipped the fish. And when the
Deluge came he entered the vessel. Then the fish came swimming up to
him, and Mann fastened the cable of the ship to the horn of the fish, by
which means the latter made it pass over the Mountain of the North. The
fish said, 'I have saved thee; fasten the vessel to a tree, that the
water may not sweep it away while thou art on the mountain; and in
proportion as the waters decrease thou shalt descend.' Manu descended
with the waters, and this is what is called the descent of Manu on the
Mountain of the North. The Deluge had carried away all creatures, and
Mann remained alone."

There is another form of the Hindoo legend in the Puranas. Lenormant
says:

"We must also 'remark that in the Puranas it is no longer Manu Vaivasata
that the divine fish saves from the Deluge, but a different personage,
the King of the Dastas--i. e., fisher--Satyravata,' the man who loves
justice and truth,' strikingly corresponding to the Chaldean Khasisatra.
Nor is the Puranic version of the Legend of the Deluge to be despised,
though it be of recent date, and full of fantastic and often puerile
details. In certain aspects it is less Aryanized than that of Brahmana
or than the Mahabharata; and, above all, it gives some circumstances
omitted in these earlier versions, which must yet have belonged to the
original foundation, since they appear in the Babylonian legend; a
circumstance preserved, no doubt, by the oral tradition--popular, and
not Brahmanic--with which the Puranas are so deeply imbued. This has
already been observed by Pictet, who lays due stress on the following
passage of the Bhagavata-Purana: 'In seven days,' said Vishnu to
Satyravata, 'the three worlds shall be submerged.' There is nothing like