O descendant of Bharata, then that foremost of virtuous men, Bhishma, worshipped according to the rites of the ordinance that highly exalted Rishi who had already arrived.
उपस्थितं महाभागं पूजयामास भारता भीष्मोधर्मभृतां श्रेष्ठो विधिदृष्टेन कर्मणा॥