O best of the Bharata race, appeared there with horns in its head. O foremost of men, seeing in the ocean that fish with the horn emerging like a rock (as he was told before, he (Manu) threw the noose (made by the rope) on the head of that fish,
शृङ्गी तत्राजगामाशु तदा भरतसत्तम। तं दृष्ट्वा मनुजव्याघ्र मनुर्मत्स्यं जलार्णवे॥ शृङ्गिणं तं यथोक्तेन रूपेणादिमिवोच्छ्रितम्। वटारकमयं पाशमथ मत्स्यस्य मूर्धनि॥