Hurled it on Bhishma's car like the dcity Maheshvara (Shiva). By the fall of that mace intended for Bhishma's destruction, that car. with its standard, charioteer and horses, was reduced to ashes. Seeing Bhishrma, that foremost of car-warriors fighting on foot.
रथे भीष्मस्य चिक्षेप यथा देवो धनेश्वरः। तया भीष्मनिपातिन्या स रथो भस्मसात्कृतः॥ सध्वजः सह सूतेन साश्वः सयुगबन्धुरः। विरथं रथिनां श्रेष्ठं भीष्मं दृष्ट्वा रथोत्तमाः॥ वै॥