When you, O Bhishma, will leave this world all knowledge, O hero, will end with you. It is, therefore, that all these persons, assembled together, have approached you for listening to discourses on duty and morality.
अमुं च लोकं त्वयि भीष्म याते ज्ञानानि नंक्ष्यन्त्यखिलेन वीर। अतस्तु सर्वे त्वयि संन्निकर्ष समागता धर्मविवेचनाय॥