Then, O king, thus urged on, Dhananjaya owning a standard bearing the device of an ape, rendered Bhishma with his standard, chariots and horses, invisible by his shafts. Then that foremost of the Kuru chiefs (Bhishma) also, with the shower of his own arrows scattered the arrows discharged by that son of Pandu. Thereupon the king of the Panchalas, and the valiant Dhrishtaketu.
सध्वजं सरथं साश्वं भीष्ममन्तर्दधे शरैः॥ स चापि कुरुमुख्यानमृषभः पाण्डवेरितान्।। शरव्रातैः शरव्रातान् बहुधा विदुधाव तान्॥ ततः पञ्चालराजश्च धृष्टकेतुश्च वीर्यवान्।