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Kuru II, a king of Puru dynasty after whom the dynasty was named 'Kuruvansha' or 'Kaurava'. After his name, the district in Haryana was called as Kurukshetra. This battlefield before the birth of Bhishma, Shantanu and Pratipa was the Yagnabhumi (sacred place or sacrificial place or capital city of Kuru Kingdom) of this King in Dvapara Yuga. By ...
The Haihayas were an ancient confederacy of five ganas (clans), who were believed to have descended from a common ancestor, Yadu. These five clans are Vitihotra, Sharyata, Bhoja, Avanti and Tundikera. The five Haihaya clans called themselves the Talajanghas [8] According to the Puranas, Haihaya was the grandson of Sahasrajit, son of Yadu. [7]
Devaki (Sanskrit: देवकी, IAST: Devakī) is a character in Hindu literature, most noted for being the mother of the god Krishna. [1] [2] She is one of the seven daughters of Devapa or Devaka, a king of the Yadu dynasty, and has four brothers. [3]
Madhavi's brothers—Yadu and Puru—take her there. However, instead of selecting a husband, Madhavi rejects them all and chooses the life of a recluse and retreats to the forest, living a life of asceticism as a mṛgacāriṇī (a woman who lives like a deer, practicing chastity and penance).
Yadu (Sanskrit: यदु, romanized: Yadu) is the founder of the Yadu dynasty in Hinduism. [1] He is described to be the eldest son of King Yayati, and his queen, Devayani. [2] He married five daughters of Nāga king. [3] [4]
Yadu, the first son of Yayati from Devayani, went on to form a cadet branch named the Yaduvamsha due to being stripped of his heirdom, while Puru, his youngest son from Sharmishtha and eventual heir, continued the main line of the Lunar dynasty, which later also came to be known as Puruvamsha. [5]
The term Yadav (or Yadava) has been interpreted to mean "a descendant of Yadu," who is a mythological king. [18]Using "very broad generalisations", Jayant Gadkari says that it is "almost certain" from analysis of the Puranas that Andhaka, Vrishni, Satvata and Abhira were collectively known as Yadavas and worshipped Krishna.
Sharmishtha is the daughter of Vrishaparvan, the daitya king, for whom the acharya Shukra is an adviser. She is a friend of Devayani, the daughter of Shukra. One day, the two go for a bath in a brook in a forest, accompanied by their retinue of maids, leaving their clothes on the bank of the stream.