Question

(e) Explain why did yayati give back the youth' and kingdom to Pure​

Answer 1

Explanation:

A fter losing his youth due to a curse from sage Shukra, king Yayati is given the concession of being able to transfer his old-age to a willing son of his. His two sons from Devayani, Yadu and Turvasu, refused the offer immediately.

The first two sons from Sharmishtha too refused to give their youth to their father. It is only the last son from Sharmishta, Puru, who agrees. Yayati thus proclaims that Puru should be the inheritor of his kingdom and riches. The price Puru pays for this is 1,000 years of old age;

Yayati enjoys, in parallel, 1,000 years of youth. Later, when Yayati accepts his old-age again, Puru becomes the first king of what would be known as the Pourava dynasty, ancestors to kings such as Dushyanta, Bharata, and the later Kouravas and Pandavas.