Then o Bharata, king Yudhishthira, beholding that twilight had set in and that his own soldiers, slaughtered by Bhishma, had thrown down their weapons, and that terrorstruck and repulsed from the field of battle, they are flying away in all directions; beholding also the mighty car-warrior Bhishma inflicting everybody, and seeing also the mighty car-warriors if the Somakas defeated and cheerless, pondered a while and then commanded the withdrawal of the forces.
ततो युधिष्ठिरो राजा संध्यां संदृश्य भारत। वध्यमानं च भीष्मेण त्यक्तास्त्रं भयविह्वलम्॥ स्वसैन्यं च परावृत्तं पलायनपरायणम्। भीष्मं च युधि संरब्ध पीडयन्तं महारथम्॥ सोमकांश्च जितान् दृष्ट्वा निरुत्साहान् महारथान्। चिन्तयित्वा ततो राजा अवहारमरोचयत्॥