The Departure

Thirty-six years after the war, the Yadavas fell to drinking and quarrelling at Prabhasa and killed one another with reeds turned to iron, fulfilling Gandhari's curse and a sage's prophecy.

Krishna withdrew to a grove and lay resting with his foot raised. The hunter Jara, seeing the sole of his foot through the leaves, mistook it for a deer's ear and shot.

Krishna comforted the horrified hunter, blessed him, and left his body. Dwarka sank beneath the sea, and the age of Kali began — but the Gita remained, and so did his name.