Bhishma experienced no pain pierced though he was to the very vitals. On the other hand Bhishma then appeared fearful to his enemies like the all destructive fire at the expiration of a Yuga, fire, whose flames were armour was constituted by his effulgent arrows and bow, whose (friendly) gale was constituted by the vibrations of air produced by the shafts shot by him, whose heat was constituted by the clatter of his car-wheel, whose splendor was constituted by his mighty weapons, tongues by his variegated bow and fuel by the destruction of heroes. Wheeling in the midst of those car divisions, he sometimes came out of the press, And sometimes again was seen to career rapidly through them. Thereafter without regarding the king of the Panchalas and Dhrishtaketu,
न विव्यथे तदा भीष्मो भिद्यमानेषु मर्मसु। संदीप्तशरचापाग्निरस्त्रप्रसृतमारुतः॥ नेमिनिदिसंतापो महास्त्रोदयपावकः। चित्रचापमहाज्वालो वीरक्षयमहेन्धनः॥ युगान्ताग्निसमप्रख्यः परेषां समपद्यत। विवृत्य रथसङ्घानामन्तरेण विनिःसृतः॥ दृश्यते स्म नरेन्द्राणां पुनर्मध्यगतश्चरन्। ततः पञ्चालराजं च धृष्टकेतुमचिन्त्य च॥