Having said to me even before your father these words viz., 'I will slay with my showers of arrows of the effulgence of the resplendent sun, Bhishma of great vows. This I say you forsooth, you made a promise.'
महं हनिष्यामि महाव्रतं तम्। भीष्मं शरौधैर्विमलार्कवणैः सत्यं वदामीति कृता प्रतिज्ञा॥