Again approached the illustrious Bhishma prostrate on his excellent bed of arrows. Then having saluted and three times circumbulated that illustrious one viz., Bhishma, and having arranged for his protection, the heroes entered their respective camps, for taking rest, at the hour of sun-set, with their bodies bespattered with blood, and thoughtful and extremely pained. Then approaching, at a suitable season, the Pandavas, those mighty car-warriors cheerfully seated together and rejoicing at the fall of Bhishma, the mighty Madhava said these words to Yudhishthira the son of Dharma.
उपगम्य महात्मानं शयानं शयने शुभे॥ तेऽभिवाद्य ततो भीष्मं कृत्वा च त्रिः प्रदक्षिणम्। विधाय रक्षां भीष्मस्य सर्व एव समन्ततः॥ वीराः स्वशिबिराण्येव ध्यायन्तः परमातुराः। निवेशायाभ्युपागच्छन् सायाछे रुधिरोक्षिताः॥ निविष्टान् पाण्डवांश्चैव प्रीयमाणान् महास्थान्। भीष्मस्य पतने हृष्टानुपगम्य महाबलः॥ उवाच माधवः काले धर्मपुत्रं युधिष्ठिरम्।