The kings hurled at their foe ten thousands arrows at the same time. Bhishma, however, stopped their memberless arrows before they could fall upon him by a counter shower of his own arrows as numerous as the down of the body. Thereupon, the kings surrounded him on all sides and rained upon him a shower of arrows like masses of clouds showering on the mountains. He (Bhishma), stopping that shower of arrows by his own, wounded each of the kings with three arrows. O king, the kings wounded Bhishma each with five arrows.
ते त्विषून् दश साहस्रांस्तस्मिन् युगपदाक्षिपन्। अप्राप्तांश्चैव तानाशु भीष्मः सर्वांस्तथान्तरा॥ अच्छिनच्छरवर्षेण महता लोमवाहिना। ततस्ते पार्थिवाः सर्वे सर्वतः परिवार्य तम्॥ ववृषुः शरवर्षेण वर्षेणेवाद्रिमम्बुदाः। स तं बाणमयं वर्षं शरैरावार्य सर्वतः॥ ततः सर्वान् महीपालान् पर्यविध्यात् त्रिभिस्त्रिभिः। एकैकस्तु ततो भीष्यं राजन् विव्याध पञ्चभिः॥