Women in Mahabharata - Vaidisheyi
She was a princess of Vidisha under Yadava-Haihaya control.
Vaishali's Turvasu-dynasty's prince Avikshit and Vaidhisheyi were attracted to each other, but Vidisha's King, with the help of other allied kings, defeated and imprisoned Avikshit in Vaidisheyi's swayamvara, while also publicly humiliating him.
Avikshit's father, the king Karandhama, attacks Vidisha, and only via the princess's intervention, both the kings allow the armies to retreat, and Avikshit and Vaidisheyi are finally allowed to marry.
Once her son Marutta is born, Avikshit abdicates in favour of his son since he cannot get over the humiliation that he had suffered during the swayamvara, and retreats to the forst with the princess.
Marutta's daughter Sammata's son is Dushyanta who is then considered the vanshakar-descendant of the now-merged Turvasu-Paurava lineage.
