All the assembled chiefs and potentates applauded him jointly and individually for his great act. They exclaimed, “He is (really) Bhishma."
तस्य तद् दुष्करं कर्म प्रशशंसुर्नराधिपाः। समेताश्च पृथक् चैव भीष्मोऽयमिति चाब्रुवन्॥