Ever cheerful even in the hour of cheerlessness, that foremost of man, Bhishma, alone, of our army, stood in that fearful battle as immovable as the mountain Meru.
अदीनो दीनसमये भीष्मोऽस्माकं महाहवे॥ एकस्तस्थौ नरव्याघ्रो गिरिर्मेसरिवाचलः।