In the Sabha Parva of the Mahabharata, Draupadi asks the assembly whether she has been lawfully lost at dice. Nobody answers. Vikarna, a younger son of Dhritarashtra, asks why Bhishma, Dhritarashtra and Vidura say nothing, and why Drona and Kripa are silent. “Ye kings, answer ye the question,” he says, in the Ganguli translation. The kings answer him “not one word, good or ill.”
Vikarna then gives his own view: “I regard Draupadi as not won.” Karna answers. “Though but a boy thou speakest in the assembly as if thou wert old,” he says. He tells Dussasana that Vikarna “is but a boy.”