While the play was going on, the Matsya king said to Yudhishthira "Even so very fearful Kauravas have been defeated in battle by my son." Whereto Yudhishthira replied “Why should he not conquer who has got Brihannala as his charioteer?"
वैशम्पायन उवाच प्रवर्तमाने द्यूते तु मत्स्यः पाण्डवमब्रवीत्। पस्य पुत्रेण मे युद्धे तादृशाः कुरवो जिताः॥ ततोऽब्रवीन्महात्मा स एनं राजा युधिष्ठिरः। बृहन्नला यस्य यन्ता कथं स न जयेद् युधि॥