Highly strong and quick-coursing, they flew onwards, devouring as if the very skies. Traversing the sacred field of Kuru, the princes went to that spot where the powerful Bhishma was lying on his bed of arrows, surrounded by those great Rishis, like Brahman himself in the midst of the celestials.
ते ग्रसन्त इवाकाशं वेगवन्तो महाबलाः॥ क्षेत्रं धर्मस्य कृत्स्नस्य कुरुक्षेत्रमवातरन्। ततो ययुर्यत्र भीष्मः शरतल्पगतः प्रभुः॥ आस्ते महर्षिभिः सार्धं ब्रह्मा देवगणैर्यथा।