Shocking And Untold History or Family Lineage Before Mahabharata Commencement || పాండవుల పుర్వీకులు ఎవరో మీకు తెలుసా?|| With Subtitles/CC
What is the ancestral origin of Kuru Dynasty?
The full family tree could be found here. The family tree starts from Bhramha to Janamejaya...
Chandra has an affair with Brihaspathi's wife - Tara and begets Budha (Mercury) who marries Ila (The son-later-turned-daughter of Vaivasvata Manu).
Ila and Budha give birth to Pururavas who marries (? or is in a relationship with Urvasi) and gives birth to Yayati.
We are aware of Yayati, Sarmishta and Devayani's story and their sons. So the sons born of Yayati and Sarmishta are the Purus and those born to Yayati and Devayani are the Yadu's. It was in the Puru line that many generations later that Shantanu is born.
The Purus were a clan, or a confederation of clans, mentioned many times in the Rigveda. RV 7.96.2 locates them at the banks of the Sarasvati River. There were several factions of Purus, one being the Bharatas. Purus rallied many other groups against King Sudas of the Bharata, but were defeated in the Battle of the Ten Kings (RV 7.18, etc.,).
India's name Bharat or Bharat-Varsh is named after a descendant of the Puru dynasty King Bharat . There were two main Vedic cultures in ancient India. The first was a northern kingdom centered on the Sarasvati-Drishadvati river region dominated by the Purus and the Ikshvakus. The second was a southern culture along the coast of the Arabian Sea and into the Vindhya Mountains, dominated by the Turvashas and Yadus and extending into groups yet further south. These northern and southern groups vied for supremacy and influenced each other in various ways as the Vedas and Puranas indicate. The northern or Bharata culture ultimately prevailed, making India the land of Bharata or Bharatavarsha and its main ancient literary record the Vedas, though militarily the Yadus remained strong throughout history.
Kuru was born after 25 generations of Puru's dynasty, and after 15 generations of Kuru, Kauravas and Pandavas were born. These were the same renowned Kauravas and Pandavas who fought the epic battle of Mahabharata. The dynasty of king Yadu - Andhak, Vrasni and Bhoj, under the leadership of Shree Krishna, helped the Pandavas win the battle. According to Puranic tradition, the war occurred 95 generations after Manu Vaivasvata. The Puranas state that there are 1,050 years between Parikshit of the Kurus and the last Kuru king at the time of Mahapadma Nanda.
The Greek name of Porus of Alexander's time seems to reflect the old tribal name. Kosambi mentioned that the Puru name perhaps survived in the modern Punjabi surname Puri.
Rigvedic Puru clan lineage
According to Puranic legend the Chandravanshi lineage is:
Brahma - Atri - Chandra - Budha (married to Manu's daughter Ila) - Pururava - Ayu - Nahusha - Yayati - Puru and Yadu...
King Yayati's elder son Yadu had officially lost the title to govern by his father's command since he had refused to exchange his youth with his father. Thereby, he could not have carried on the same dynasty, called Somvanshi. Consequently, the generations of King Puru, Paurav or Puruvanshi were the only ones to be known as Somvanshi.
Yayati divided up his kingdom into five quarters (VP IV.10.1708). To Turvasha he gave the southeast (Bay of Bengal); to Druhya the west Gandhara; to Yadu the south (By Arabian sea); to Anu the north Punjab; and to Puru the center (Sarasvati region) as the supreme king of Earth.
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