Pururavas (Son of Ila & Buddha) became a great King and once he was doing his YOG in a forest at his early age. At the same time Lord Indra sent Urvashi (nymph) to the earth from the heavens as her punishment for 4 autumns.
Urvashi and Pururavas met in the Jungle and fell in love. They got married instantly. Urvashi gave birth to many kids and one of them was Ayu.
Urvashi after spending 4 autumns disappeared from Earth as her punishment ended. Pururavas knew about this and did years of Yagna and Tapasya (worship) to Lord Indra to take back Urvashi but there was no response.
He waited for Urvashi for his entire life.
What happened to AYU, the Next King of AILA Dynasty?
Ayu became a successful King and married to Prabha, daughter of Asura Rahu. However he remained Childless. Then he married Ashokasundari, the daughter of Lord Shiva and Parvati, with her he had a future King 'Nahusha'.
Nahusha ruled over all 3 worlds. But after his win and years of ruling over the world, he became insolent, and he disrespected saints and coveted Indra's queen Sachi. Eventually sage Bhrigu hid himself in the locks of sage Agastya and cursed Nahusha to become a serpent, ousting him. Agastya decreed that Nahusha will eventually meet Yudhishthira who will free him from the curse.
Nahusha became father of Yayati, his second born. His first born Yati became a saint and left the kingdom, so Yayati his second born became King after Nahusha.
Yayati's father, Nahusha is transformed into a Python by a curse uttered by the sages as punishment for his arrogance. Yayāti's elder brother, Yati, is initially given the kingdom, but turns it down and instead becomes an ascetic. Yayāti then becomes king in his place and prospers so greatly that he is able to conquer the whole world. He appoints his four younger brothers to rule the world's cardinal directions.
One day Sharmishtha, daughter of the Danava(devils) King Vrishparva and Devayani, daughter of the Daitya sage Shukracharya, go with Sharmishtha's retinue to bathe in a forest pool not far from their home. After bathing, Sharmishtha confuses Devayani's Sari (clothes)with hers and puts it on instead. Devayani returns, scolds Sharmishtha for her mistake and belittles her with the jibe that she is the daughter of Shukracharya (Shukracharya being a sage and high priest and indeed the Guru of all the Asuras - no mere employee) as Vrishparva's and their Kingdom lives on his blessings. This slur on herself and her father Vrishparva infuriates Sharmishtha. With the help of her servants, Sharmishtha throws the naked Devayani into a well and leaves the forest with her retinue. Later Yayati, son of Nahusha, comes to the well for water and helps Devayani to climb out of it.
Devayani resolves to make Sharmishtha her servant in revenge for trying to kill her by throwing her into the well. Sharmishtha's father, Vrishparva agrees to this, since he fears that the continued security of his kingdom would be in doubt without the sage counsel of Devayani's father Shukracharya. Sharmishtha also agrees to this to save the kingdom and becomes Devayani's maidservant.
Some days later Devayani goes on a picnic in the forest with her servants (including Sharmishtha). There she again meets Yayāti, who is out hunting. Yayāti finds himself attracted by Sharmishtha's beauty, asks Devayani about her. Devayani observed this, introduced Sharmishtha as her slave and also claimed that he should become her husband as he has held her hand while helping her out of the well. Yayāti fears Shukracharya, and tells Devayani that he will marry her only if his father agrees. Yayāti presumed that it is not Dharma for a King to marry a Brahmin girl.
This time she brings him to her father and tells him that she would like to marry Yayāti. Shukracharya gives his consent and tells Yayāti that he should take care of Sharmishtha too (as she is a princess, by birth) although he shouldn't maintain a physical relationship with her. Yayāti marries Devayani and looks after her well.
After a long while, Sharmishtha comes to Yayāti and requests him to give her a child. He refuses and says that, if he were to do so, he could not face the wrath of Shukracharya. Nevertheless, Sharmishtha manages finally to convince him, saying that it would be against Dharma if he were to refuse her request; he being the king, it is his responsibility to ensure the needs of the citizens and she is desperate to have a child. He reluctantly agrees and they begin a relationship, in the hopes that she will conceive. In due course, Devayani gives birth to two sons Yadu and Turvasu while Sharmishtha begets three sons Druhyu, Anu and Puru.
Eventually Devayani learns of her husband's affair with Sharmishtha and complains to her father. Enraged at his son-in-law's disobedience, Shukracharya curses Yayāti with premature old age in punishment for inflicting such pain upon his daughter. However on learning Sharmishta's desire to become a mother, he later relents, telling Yayāti that if he can persuade one of his (Yayāti's) sons to swap ages with him he will be able to escape the curse and regain his lost youth for a while. Yayāti asks his sons if one of them will give up his youth to rejuvenate his father, but all refuse except the youngest, Puru (one of his sons by Sharmishtha). In grateful recognition of Puru's filial devotion, Yayāti makes him his legitimate heir and it is from the line of Puru - later King Puru - that the 'Kuru vamsha' (Kuru dynasty) later arises.
Later, after Yayati sends out Yadu from his dynasty for not giving up his youth for him, Yadu started his own dynasty named 'Yadavas' in which after 4000 years, Lord Krishan was Born.
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