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Prachetas
Prachetas (Sanskrit: प्रचेतस्) lit. '"the prescient one"'[1] [2] is a term in Hindu mythology with a number of definitions:
- It is an epithet of Varuna.[3]
- It is a name of one of the ten Prajapatis, the son of Suvarna and Suvarni, a law giver and sage.[4]
- It is the name of the grandson of the sage Marichi[5] 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.
- ^ "Prachetas translation". Babylon 10.
- ^ "[P] Piabdhi-Pramana". Osho Su.
- ^ www.wisdomlib.org (2017-04-18). "Praceta: 3 definitions". www.wisdomlib.org. Retrieved 2022-08-04.
- ^ Helena Petrovna Balavatsky (January 1993). The Secret Doctrine Vol.1. Quest Books. p. 578. ISBN 9780835602389.
- ^ www.wisdomlib.org (2019-11-24). "Ramayana: Chapter LXX". www.wisdomlib.org. Retrieved 2022-08-04.
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