I remember reading somewhere that whatever Krishna did (or did not do) for the Pandavs was actually a plan to rectify a long-standing injustice.
I did some digging around, and I found out about the Devayani-Yayayi-Sharmishtha story. There, the kingdom is passed not to the rightful heir Yadu but to the youngest, Sharmishtha-putra Puru.
So that makes things a bit simpler, i.e. Krishna's actions directly and indirectly were aimed at rectifying that age-old mistake, which he does accomplish when Parikshit sits on the throne.
So that means,
The Kuru dynasty was indeed finished when all three sons of Shantanu (Bheeshma, Chitrangad and Vichitraveerya) died childless.
Then, the son of Shudra-Brahmin Ved Vyaas and the Kshatriya Kashi princess Ambalika, Pandu is born, who is married to Yadava Kunti.
Pandu is childless, so the Shudra-Brahmin-Kshatriya lineage is done with.
Kunti gets her five sons from the Devas with Brahmin-like qualities.
Of them, Arjun marries the Yadava Subhadra.
Abhimanyu dies in the war, but his son Parikshit is almost a Yadava.
So, when Parikshit comes to reign, he rules over Hastinapur (virtually) jointly with the Yadava ruler Vajra who has his capital in Mathura. Thus, finally after thus eons that error of Yayati is corrected by the Mahabharata and the two friendly Kings rule over almost the entire continent of India.
Now, this is just my assumption based on whatever little poking around I've done. I might have gone wrong anywhere. This thing has been bugging me since a long time, and I really want to get to the end of this. So, help me? 😳
Edited by Radhikerani - 7 years ago
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