A story involving Lord Vishnu and King Manu is found in the Hindu chronicle Matsya Purana. Lord Vishnu in his 'matsya' (fish) avatar ordered the virtuous king Manu to construct a huge boat with animal and plant specimens of all forms, to escape the Great Deluge, and finally when the water receded, the great boat was found atop the Malaya Mountains. Encyclopædia Britannica notes that Manu combines the characteristics of the Hebrew Bible figures of Noah, who preserved life from extinction in a great flood, and Adam, the first man, which view is reflected in several other works. Indologist David Dean Shulman writes that borrowing between the myths of Manu and Noah cannot be ruled out.