Puru
Hindu · mortal · mythic · Recorded classification
The Kuru dynasty the corpus holds forty-odd records from starts here, and the corpus's oldest Kuru record was Pratipa. A registry whose subject is descent should be able to walk up from Yudhishthira past Pratipa to somebody, and until this batch it could not.
Parentage
- parent: Yayati
- parent: Sharmishtha
Domains
- kingship
Relations
- sibling: YaduReciprocated in-batch. Half-brothers strictly — same father, different mothers — and the kind chosen is the plain one because the corpus's SYM vocabulary carries both 'sibling' and 'half sibling' and the treatment consulted states the shared father without using either term. The parentRoles on both records carry the actual mothers, which is where the distinction is visible.Reference treatment: Sharmishtha begot Puru and Devayani begot Yadu, both by Yayati. (secondary)
- took the old age of: YayatiA kind invented for one story, because no standing kind describes it and the transaction is the only thing this figure is remembered for.Reference treatment: only Puru accepted the old age of his father, who thereby regained his youth. (secondary)
Sources
- Puru is Yayati's son by Sharmishtha, the only son willing to take his father's old age, and the ancestor of the line that becomes the Kuru dynasty.: Reference treatments of Puru, of Yayati and of the lunar dynasty. (secondary)