We must also remark that in the _Purânas_ it is no longer Manu Vaivasata that the divine fish saves from the Deluge, but a different personage, the King of the Dâsas--_i.e._, fishers, 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 _Brâhmana_ or than the _Mahâbhârata_, 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 _Purânas_ are so deeply imbued. This has been already observed by Pictet, who lays due stress on the following passage of the _Bhâgavata-Purâna_: "In _seven days_," said Vishnu to Satyravata, "the three worlds shall be submerged." There is nothing like this in the _Brâhmana_ nor the _Mahâbhârata_, but in Genesis the Lord says to Noah, "_Yet seven days_ and I will cause it to rain upon the earth;" and a little further we read, "_After seven days_ the waters of the flood were upon the earth." And we have just pointed out the parts played by hebdomades as successive periods in that system of the duration of the flood, adopted by the author of the Jehovist documents inserted in Genesis, as well as by the compiler of the Chaldean Epic of Uruk. Nor must we pay less attention to what the _Bhâgavata-Purâna_ says of the directions given by the fish-god to Satyravata for the placing of the sacred Scriptures in a safe place in order to preserve them from Hayagrîva, a marine horse dwelling in the abyss, and of the conflict of the god with this Hayagrîva, who had stolen the Vedas and thus produced the cataclysm by disturbing the order of the world. This circumstance too is wanting in the more ancient compositions, even in the _Mahâbhârata_, but it is a most important one, and cannot be looked on as a spontaneous product of Indian soil, for we recognize in it under an Indian garb the very tradition of the interment of the sacred writings at Sippara by Khasisatra, such as we have it in the fragments of Berosus.