He dislodged car-warriors from their cars, and felled, O king, horsemen with their chargers; he also made the mighty car-division look like Palmyra groves, with trees deprived of their leafy heads. Then Bhishma that foremost of all wielders of weapons deprived, 0 king, the cars, the chargers and the elephants, of their respective riders, in that battle. The troops then, O king, began to tremble, hearing the twang of his bow-string and the slap of his palms, that resembled the thunder itself. Indeed, O lord of men, the arrows of Bhishma did never fail to hit their marks. Shot from his bow, the arrows did not stick merely on the skin of warriors and animals.
पातयन् रथिनो राजन् हयांश्च सहसादिभिः। मुण्डतालवनानीव चकार स रथव्रजान्॥ निर्मनुष्यान् रथान् राजन् गजानश्वांश्च संयुगे। चकार समरे भीष्मः सर्वशस्त्रभृतां वरः॥ तस्य ज्यातलनिर्घोषं विस्फूर्जितमिवाशनेः। निशम्य सर्वतो राजन् समकन्यन्त सैनिकाः॥ अमोघा न्यपतन् बाणाः पितुस्ते मनुजेश्वर। नासज्जन्त शरीरेषु भीष्मचापच्युताः शराः॥