Question

why did yayati call him sons

Answer 1

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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.