Just as bleak wintry cold penetrates into the very vitals of the kine, so did then Bhishma cut the army of the sons of the Pandu to the very quick. Then many elephants of your army loO king like newly formed clouds, were felled by the high-souled son of Pritha in that battle.
यता हि शैशिरः कालो गवां मर्माणि कृन्तति। तथा पाण्डुसुतानां वै भीष्मो मर्माणि कृन्तति॥ तथैव तव सैन्यस्य पार्थेन च महात्मना। नवमेघप्रतीकाशा: पातिता बहुधा गजाः॥