Then that highly intelligent Bhishma beholding them and reflecting for a while said to them, "I shall not yield up my life,
सम्प्रेक्ष्य वै महाबुद्धिश्चिन्तयित्वा च भारत॥ तानब्रवीच्छान्तनवो नहां गन्ता कथंचन।