You tell me that Bhishma who is the foremost of all warriors and who is equal to Indra in the great deeds he has performed has been killed, what can be a greater grief to me than this?
तमिन्द्रसमकर्माणं ककुदं सर्वधन्विनाम्। हत शंससि मे भीष्मं किं नु दुःखमतः परम्॥