O foremost of men, O conqueror of hostile cities, fattened by the noose, the fish towed the ark with great force over the salt water. O best of men, it dragged him in that vessel in the roaring and bellowing sea. Tossed by the tempest on the great ocean, the vessel reeled about like a drunken harlot. O conqueror of hostile cities, neither land nor the four cardinal points of the horizon could be then distinguished.
मनुर्मनुजशार्दूल तस्मिन् शृङ्गे न्यवेशयत्। संयतस्तेन पाशेन मत्स्यः परपुरंजय॥ वेगेन महता नावं प्राकर्षल्लवणाम्भसि। स च तांस्तारयन् नावा समुद्रं मनुजेश्वर॥ नृत्यमानमिवोर्मीभिर्गर्जमानमिवाम्भसा। क्षोभ्यमाणा महाबातैः सा नौस्तस्मिन् महोदधौ॥ घूर्णते चपलेव स्त्री मत्ता परपुरंजय। नैव भूमिर्न च दिशः प्रदिशो वा चकाशिरे॥