Adrika

A nymph (devastri). There is a story in Devi Bhagavata about her being cursed by a Brahmin and turned into a fish.

She was the mother of Matsya and Satyavati.

The name Adrika means “small mountain”.

Adrika was transformed by a curse into a fish and lived in the Yamuna river.

Vasu (also known as Uparicara Vasu), a Chedi King, was on a hunting expedition when he had a nocturnal emission while dreaming of his wife. Using an eagle, He sent his semen to his queen but due to fighting mid-air with another eagle, the semen fell into the river and was swallowed by the cursed Adrika-fish. Consequently, the fish became pregnant.
Soon, a fisherman caught the pregnant fish and cut it open to find two babies in the womb of the fish, one male and one female. The fisherman presented the children to the king, who kept the male child. The boy grew up to become King Matsya, the founder of the Matsya Kingdom. The king gave the female child back to the fisherman, naming her Matsya-gandha (“She who smells like fish”). The fisherman raised the girl as his daughter and named her Kali (“the dark one”) because of her complexion.
Over the course of time, Kali earned the name Satyavati (“truthful”). The fisherman was also a ferryman, ferrying people across the river in his boat. Satyavati helped her father, the fisherman, in his job and grew up into a beautiful maiden.

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