O Bhishma, you are conversant with virtue and all sciences and it is proper that you should do the right thing after hearing me.
भीष्म त्वमसि धर्मज्ञः सर्वशास्त्रविशारदः। श्रुत्वा च वचनं धर्म्यं मह्यं कर्तुमिहार्हसि॥