Then car-warriors and cavalry-soldiers were strewn by thousand on the filed of battle. Thereupon excited with wrath, the son of Shantanu namely Bhishma, with straightknotted shafts, began to slay the troops of the high-souled Pandavas. with his arrows he also dispatched to the regions of Death the troops belonging to the Panchala Princes.
रथिनः सादिनश्चाथ व्यकीर्यन्त सहस्रशः। ततः शान्तनवः क्रुद्धः शरैः संनतपर्वभिः॥ नाशयामास सेनां तां भीष्मस्तेषां महात्मनाम्। पञ्चालानां च सैन्यानि शरैर्निन्ये यमक्षयम्॥