Then Bhishma of prowess unfailing, in battle, with his own shafts of depressed knots simultaneously baffled all these arrows shot by the hostile warriors.
तैश्च मुक्ताञ्छरान् भीष्मो युधि सत्यपराक्रमः॥ निवारयामास शरैः समं संनतपर्वभिः।