At the spot where that foremost of men was lying on his arrowy bed. Then coming to Bhishma those sages under the forms of swans,
यत्र शेते नरश्रेष्ठः शरतल्पे पितामहः॥ ते तु भीष्मं समासाद्य ऋषयो हंसरूपिणः।