Then that mighty car-warrior Bhishma, holding in check the division of the son of Pandu (Arjuna), slew those Somakas in battle who followed Partha, with arrows furnished with golden wings and of great sharpness and depressed knots; and he filled the points cardinal and subsidiary of the compass with the echoes of his war-cries.
सोमकांश्च रणे भीष्मो जघ्ने पार्थपदानुगान्। न्यवारयत तत् सैन्यं पाण्डवस्य महारथः॥ सुवर्णपु?रिषुभिः शितैः संनतपर्वभिः। नादयन् स दिशो भीष्मः प्रदिशश्च महाहवे॥