Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.5221

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4) *Rejuvenation.* Yayāti asked his eldest son Yadu for his youthfulness. But the latter was not prepared to exchange it for his father’s old age. Next the father approached his younger sons, Turvasu, Druhyu, and Anudruhyu, with the same request, but all of them in turn refused to oblige him. Even though Yayāti promised to return the youthfulness to them after a thousand years, they refused to exchange it for his old age. Yayāti in his anger, cursed Yadu that his progeny would never become Kings. Turvasu’s family would be completely destroyed and Druhyu would float down the river, with unfulfilled desires and faded prosperity. Pūru wholeheartedly accepted his father’s old age in exchange for his youth and went to the forest. From that day Yayāti began his reign with a cheerful heart. (M.B. Ādi parva, Chapters 84 and 85).