The Kuru warriors, with their soldiers witnessed that encounter between Bhishma and Partha attacking each other with darts. Partha shooting arrows with both the hands, the Gandiva bow looked like a continuous circle of fire. The son of Kunti enveloped Bhishma with hundreds of sharp arrows like a cloud covering the mountain with rain. Bhishma with his own arrows counteracted that shower of arrows like banks resisting the surging deep, and covered Arjuna with shafts. Those shafts, sundered into a thousand pieces, fell on Arjuna's car. Then arose a downpour of gold-winged shafts going through the sky like a swarm of locusts. He then pierced Bhishma with hundred sharpened shafts.
सर्वे योधाश्च सहसैनिकाः भल्लैर्भल्लाः समागम्य भीष्मपाण्डवयोर्युधि। अन्तरिक्षे व्यराजन्त खद्योताः प्रावृषीव हि॥ अग्निचक्रमिवाविद्धं सव्यदक्षिणमस्यतः। गाण्डीवमभवद् राजन् पार्थस्य सृजतः शरान्॥ ततः संछादयामास भीष्मं शरशतैः शितैः। पर्वतं वारिधाराभिश्छादयन्निव तोयदः॥ तां स वेलामिवोद्धतां शरवृष्टिं समुत्थिताम्। व्यधमत् सायकैर्भीष्मः पाण्डवं समवारयत्॥ ततस्तानि निकृत्तानि शरजालानि भागशः। समरे च व्यशीर्यन्त फाल्गुनस्य रथं प्रति॥ ततः कनकपुङ्खानां शरवृष्टिं समुत्थिताम्। पाण्डवस्य रथात् तूर्णं शलमानामिवायतिम्। व्यधमत् तां पुनस्तस्य भीष्मः शरशतैः शितैः॥