Prachetas

'"the prescient one"'[1] [2] is a term in Hindu mythology with a number of definitions: Prachetas are those which bring consciousness to the outside, through the development of the senses that are active as sensations.

[7] But in the Rigveda mantra I.5.7, which reads: This refers to the "super-conscious" being in whom it is prayed that the "impatient seekers" be allowed to enter (i.e. be merged with).

Pracetas had one hundred sons who were the kings of the Mlechchhas, the barbarians of the northern Indian subcontinent.

It is also said that there were ten Prachetas who were the sons of Prāchinabarhi and great grandsons of Prithu and Archi; according to the Vishnu Purana, they had passed ten thousand years in the great ocean, deep in meditation upon Vishnu who made them the progenitors of humanity.

[12] Brahma, however, requested that they not do so, and solemnized their marriage with Marisha; and it was their union that gave the second body to Daksha.