Sanjaya said Having thus spoken, ne, with five shafts of depressed knots, pierced Bhishma in battle who had already been deeply pierced with the former's wordy arrow.
संजय उवाच एवमुक्त्वा ततो भीष्मं पञ्चभिर्नतपर्वभिः। अविध्यत रणे भीष्मं प्रणुन्नं वाक्यसायकैः॥