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Prithu.
Vijitasva Haryyaksha Dhumraksha Vrika Dravinas
or Antardhana. (East) (South) (West) (North)
m. Sikhandini m. Nabhasvati.
| | | Havirdhana
Pavaka Pavamana Suchi
Barhishad Gaya Sukla Krishna Satya Jitavrata
alias Prachina Barhis
m. Satadruti.
IO Prachetases
m. Marisha
Daksha.
Vijitasva could make himself invisible. This may have reference
to the state of the body at that stage of evolution. The fires appeared
as it is they that give forms. The object corresponding to elemental
fire is Rupa or form. Barhishad, the name of one class of Pitris, was
the progenitor of the form-producing Linga Sarira with all its poten-
tialities.
We find the senses developed in his sons the Prachetas brothers.
"Pra" Means perfect and " Chetas " is the perceiving mind. But the
mind perceives through the Indriyas, which are ten in number. There-
fore they are ten brothers all alike; but they are wedded to one girl
Marisha.
There is some occult connection between water and sense per-
ception. Barhishad was married to the daughter of the Ocean-god.
The Prachetas brothers remained submerged for a thousand years in
the waters. The protozoa and protophytes must of necessity be aqua-
tic, as it were, for the development in them of sense perceptions.
It is in Touch that the sense perceptions find a common basis.
Touch underlies all other perceptions. It is touch of the object
by one sense or other that gives rise to one perception or the other.
"Kandu " is primarily scratching or itching, secondarily touch. Mari-
sha was nourished by the moon and brought up by the plants.
The period refers to the stage of evolution when the vegetables
formed the predominant creation. It corresponds somewhat to the
geological period of tree-ferns and lycopods in our Manvantara.
The development of sense perceptions is the result of a com-
munion with Vishnu, under the auspices of Rudra. This means a
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