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In the nineteenth chapter of book nine of the Bhagavata Purana, Puru is described as having four brothers; Yadu, Turvasu, Druhyu, and Anu.He exchanges his youth for the old age of his father Yayati when the latter gets cursed by Shukracharya, allowing his father to enjoy his youth for a thousand years. [3]
In Hindu texts, the Puru and Yadu Dynasties are the descendants of legendary King Pururavas who was a famous Hindu ruler in the Treta Yuga. Pururavas was the son of Ila and Budha . Some of the dynasties' important members were Yayati , Yadu , King Puru , Turvasu, Druhyu and Anu.
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.
After a thousand years of enjoying the sensual company of his wives, Yayati named Puru his heir and retired to the forest. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Vishnu Purana states that as they had refused to accept their father's curse, Turvasu, Druhyu, and Anu received smaller regions of Yayati's domains to rule for themselves.
Pururavas's great-grandson was Yayati, who had five sons named Yadu, Turvasu, Druhyu, Anu, and Puru. These seem to be the names of five Vedic tribes as described in the Vedas. [3] According to the Mahabharata, Lunar dynasty's progenitor Ila ruled from Prayaga, and had a son Shashabindu who ruled in the country of Bahli. [4]
The Itihasa-Purana, the Epic-Puranic narratives of the Sanskrit Epics (Mahabharata and the Ramayana) [1] and the Puranas, [1] contain royal genealogies of the lunar dynasty and solar dynasty which are regarded by Indian traditions as historic events, and used in the Epic-Puranic chronology to establish a traditional timeline of Indian history.
King Kuru II of Puru dynasty after whom the dynasty was named 'Kuruvansha' or 'Kaurava'. After his name, the district in Haryana was called as Kurukshetra. [8] By the glory, zenith and name of this king the dynasty hence renamed from Paurava Kingdom to Kuru Kingdom. [9] After these Kings several kings of this dynasty established several kingdoms.
[10] [11] In Mandala 6, the Yadu-Turvashas are stated to have been "brought from far away" by Indra. [12] [13] The Yadu-Turvashas are treated relatively positively in Mandalas 5, 6, and 8, [14] and are stated to be the occasional allies and enemies of the Puru-Bharatas. [10] In the Battle of the Ten Kings, the Yadus were defeated by Bharata ...