Even Vasava himself is not capable of withstanding Arjuna in battle, what to speak of the heroic Bhishma whose energy is gone and life is exhausted?”
अर्जुनं समरे योद्धं नोत्सहेतापि वासवः॥ किमु भीष्मो रणे वीरा गतसत्त्वोऽल्पजीवितः।