Lying on abcd of arrows, Bhishma waited like an ascetic till the sun leaving his southwards path entered on his northerly course when that hero died.
अकरोत् स ततः कालं शरतल्पगतो मुनिः। अयनं दक्षिणं हित्वा सम्प्राप्ते चोत्तरायणे॥