That chastiser of foes, the scion of the Dasharha race, while staying there, beheld in the heaven the Rishis who had attained to the better world. And seeing the Rishis under the leadership of Narada, the scion of the Dasharha race said to Bhishma the son of Shantanu slowly, “To see this earthly assembly have the Rishis come, O ruler of men.
तत्र तिष्ठन् स दाशार्हो राजमध्ये परंतपः। अपश्यदन्तरिक्षस्थानृषीन् परपुरंजयः। ततस्तानभिसम्प्रेक्ष्य नारदप्रमुखानृषी॥ अभ्यभाषत दाशार्हो भीष्मं शान्तनवं शनैः। पार्थिवीं समितिं द्रष्टुमृषयोऽभ्यागता नृप॥