The highly puissani Bhishma the son of Shantanu, now perverted in his judgment, decayed in intelligence and in vitality surely knows not what he ought to do."
विपरीतो महावीर्यो गतसत्त्वोऽल्पजीवनः। भीष्मः शान्तनवो नूनं कर्तव्यं नावबुध्यते॥