Vasudeva said 'That foremost men, viz., Bhishma, who is now lying on a bed of arrows, and who is now like a fire that is about to be extinguished, is thinking of me. It is therefore my mind also was concentrated on him.
वासुदेव उवाच शरतल्पगतो भीष्मः शाम्यन्निव हुताशनः मां ध्याति पुरुषव्याघ्रस्ततो मे तद्गतं मनः॥