Then taking up an arrow which resembled Death himself which was capable of being a great strain and which was incapable of being resisted, the mighty Bhishma placed it on his bow-string.
ततः शरं मृत्युसमं भारसाधनमुत्तमम्॥ विकृष्य बलवान् भीष्मः समाधत्त दुरासदम्।