O best of the Bharata race, Bhishma seemed to dance on his car as it moved about. Some elephants vitally wounded by him, shrieked in great agony.
नृत्यतो रथमार्गेषु भीष्मस्य भरतर्षभ। भृशमार्तस्वरं चक्रुर्नागा मर्मणि ताडिताः॥