Krishna fights for dharma, but he does not reject the law of karma. A good deed can have bad consequences. He ends with the curse of Gandhari that will wipe out his entire clan. In the Ramayana, Ram establishes Ramrajya but his own wife and children live in the forest. In the Mahabharata, the victory of the Pandavas does not bring joy to Krishna either. The idea of God being cursed and so bound to the material world and its law of karma is a recurring theme in Hindu lore. The war claims the Kauravas and the children of the Pandavas. And so in the ‘Stri Parva’ of the Mahabharata, all women weep
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