When falling Bhishma had marked the sun to be then on the Southern solstice and that hero considering that hour to be inauspicious for paying his debt to nature did not allow his senses to depart.
पतन् स ददृशे चापि दक्षिणेन दिवाकरम्॥ संज्ञां चोपालभद् वीरः कालं संचिन्त्य भारत।