I will lay low Bhishma the grandsire of the Kurus." Thereupon that descendant of Madhu's race, drove those steeds of Argentine hue,
पातयिष्यामि दुर्धर्षं भीष्मं कुरुपितामहम्। स चाश्वान् रजतप्रख्यांश्चोदयामास माधवः॥