O Bhishma, if at your word one who has killed women and kine be worshipped, what then is to become of this teaching? O Bhishma, how can he deserve praise who is such?
गोनः स्त्रीनश्च सन् भीष्म त्वद्वाक्याद् यदि पूज्यते। एवंभूतश्च यो भीष्म कथं संस्तवमर्हति॥