GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -After spending fifty-one nights on the arrow bed, Bhishma left his body on the auspicious Uttarayana (winter solstice). Before his death, he passed down the Vishnu Sahasranama to Yudhishtira.

Detailed explanation-2: -Bhishma had the power to choose the time of his death. When Arjuna, standing behind Shikahandi, shoots him with a number of arrows, Bhishma falls to the ground, the arrows serving him as a bed. Not wanting to die when the sun is in the south, Bhishma lies on the bed of arrows waiting for the sun to move north.

Detailed explanation-3: -Six arrows, he used to kill the rath driver of Bheeshm. With one arrow each he knocked down respectively the rath, flag and the bow of Bheeshm. Finally, with one more than four times the square root of arrows he laid Bheeshm unconscious on an arrow bed.

Detailed explanation-4: -Narkatari temple where Bhishma lied down on a bed of arrows-YouTube.

Detailed explanation-5: -The anniversary of Bhishma’s death is observed during Magha Shukla Ashtami, the eighth day of the fortnight of the month of Magha.