Prachetas

Pracetas (Sanskrit: प्रचेतस्) lit. '"the prescient one"' is a term in Hindu mythology with a number of definitions:

It is an epithet of Varuna.
It is a name of one of the ten Prajapatis, the son of Suvarna, a law giver.
It is the name of the grandson of the sage Marichi and Kala, Varuna, the water god who is their grandson through their son Kashyapa and his wife Aditi.
It is the designation for a group of beings in the Vedas.
It is the collective term for the ten great-grandsons of Prithu and Archi.

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