Baladeva

Pradyumna, having been carried unconscious from the battlefield, imagines the scorn of every Vrishni hero — Gada, Baladeva, Satyaki, and the women of his clan — if he does not return. He tells Daruki that shame with ridicule is worse than death, and commands the chariot be turned back at once.

Shalva rises into the sky and rains down a storm of weapons on Krishna. As Krishna wards them off, a messenger arrives from Dvaraka with devastating news: Shalva has attacked the city and killed Shura's son. Then Krishna sees his own father falling from the sky — and for a moment, the greatest warrior of the age is shattered.