All those firm bowmen, never receding from the fight pierced Bhishma on many parts of his body with arrows steadily directed.
ते सर्वे दृढधन्वानः संयुगेष्वपलायिनः॥ बहुधा भीष्ममानछुर्मार्गणैः क्षतमार्गणैः।