# Pracetas Hear Rudra-Gita Maitreya continued by discussing the descendants in the family of Prthu. When he came to Pracinabarhisat and his ten sons, the Pracetas, he paused to narrate more. When requested by their father to procreate, the Pracetas first went to practise austerities for 10,000 years in the water. En route, they met Lord Siva who taught them a series of beautiful prayers known as the Rudra-gita. In these prayers, one first offers respects to the four expansions of Vishnu and the presiding deities of various elements, after which the Lord’s glorious form is described, along with the super-excellence of *bhakti*. Siva was taught this prayer by Lord Brahma, and he encouraged the Pracetas to attentively recite it with great devotion. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://bhagavata.keshavaswami.com/canto-04/s.k.i.p/p-pracinabarhisat-pracetas-and-puranjana-24-31/pracetas-hear-rudra-gita.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.