On the fourteenth day of the Kurukshetra War, the exhausted and weaponless Satyaki was overpowered by Bhurishrava, who dragged him by the hair and prepared to kill him. Bhurishrava sought revenge for an old family feud—his father Somadatta had once been humiliated by Sini, Satyaki's grandfather, and had prayed for a son who would avenge that insult