Like the banks receiving the surging waves of the mighty main, Bhishma also, O monarch, that foremost of car-warrior, received that assailing host of the enemy.
भीष्मोऽपि रथिनां श्रेष्ठः प्रतिजग्राह तां चमूम्। आपतन्ती महाराज वेलामिव महोदधिः॥