Matsya Purana is one of the eighteen Puranas, so called from its contents having been narrated to Manu Vaivasvat by Vishnu in his Matsya or fish incarnation.
- It consists of twenty-thousand verses.
- The Matsyapuran contains the account of the universe, the Matsya and other incarnations of Vishnu, legends of Shiv and chapters on law and morals.