Karna said When that Bhishma, who was endued with resoluteness, intelligence, prowess, energy, truthfulness, self-control and with all the other attributes of a hero; who was proficient in the use of celestial weapons; in whom there were humility, bashfulness, sweet speech and harmlessness; who was always grateful, the slayer of the enemies of the twice-borns, in whom there resided all these virtues for ever that Bhishma the destroyer of hostilc heroes had obtained his quietus, I consider the remaining warriors as already slain.
कर्ण उवाच यस्मिन् धृतिर्बुद्धिपराक्रमौजः सत्यं स्मृतिर्वीरगुणाश्च सर्वे। अस्त्राणि दिव्यान्यथ संलतिहीं: प्रिया च वागनसूया च भीष्मे॥ सदा कृतज्ञे द्विजशत्रुघातके सनातनं चन्द्रमसीव लक्ष्म। स चेत् प्रशान्तः परवीरहन्ता मन्ये हतानेव च सर्ववीरान्॥