The legend of Matsya is only briefly mentioned in the Brahma Purana, as quoted above. O.M. Starza states that Svetamadhava 'to the south of the Blue Mountain... On its banks are the two shrines, those of Matsya Avatara [Matsyamadhava] and King Sveta [Svetamadhava]'. He adds that in the Skanda Purana (Purusottama Mahatmya: 37.55-6), Vishnu granted Sveta a crystalline image seated in front of Matsya (at Puri, between the blue hill and the sea) as a reward for asceticism.