Various were the oppressions of the Matsya's described to us-and we promised them help, assailed with fear as they were. And the arrangement with them was that they should first, on the afternoon of the seventh lunar day, seize the great collection of the precious kine of the Matsya's.
मत्स्यानां विप्रकारांस्ते बहूनस्मानकीर्तयन्॥ तेषां भयाभिभूतानां तदस्माभिः प्रतिश्रुतम्। प्रथमं तैर्ग्रहीतव्यं मत्स्यानां गोधनं महत्। सप्तम्यामपराठे वै तथा तैस्तु समाहितम्॥