Prachetas

Pracetas (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, a law giver.^[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.