Bhishma said Approaching then, chief among the Bharatas, my mother, the mother of heroes, who was the daughter of the Dasha race and saluting her I said these words.
भीष्म उवाच ततोऽहं भरतश्रेष्ठ मातरं वीरमातरम्। अभिगम्योपसंगृह्य दाशेयीमिदमब्रुवम्॥