Padma(smiling): O Radha, please give me permission to depart. I shall quickly go to Sakisthali village and bring pleaure to my dear friend, Candravali, who sings the glories of Lord Krishna.
Vishaka(laughing): Padma, you are fortunate. your dear friend, Candravali, can remain happy simply by singing about Krishna, even though she does not get the opportunity to see Him.
Padma: Vishaka, why do you not also act in that way?
Vishaka: Ah, how will we become able to act like that?
Padma: Why not?
Vishaka: O charming girl, my friend, Radhika, becomes agitated simply by the sound of the name, Krishna.
Padma: (Aside) She praises the glory of her friend, Radha's love for Krishna. So be it. (Openly) Vishaka, you are genuinely happy. I and my friends are actually unhappy.
Lalita: Padma, you do not suffer at all.
Padma: Lalita, don't speak in this way. We are constantly in the dressing room, stringing garlands for Candravali, arranging her hair, anointing her bimba fruit lips with red cosmetics, and decorating her in many ways. Our suffering is a great network that has no end.
Vishaka(laughing):O Padma, it is true. You and your friends have many sufferings. I and my friends have only one.
Padma: Oh! What is that?
Vishaka: For Radha, Krishna is like an unreachable star shining in the sky. Radha is continually tormented by the desire to attain this unattainable Krishna, Who is like a regal young maddened elephant enjoying pastimes on the shore of the Yamuna.
Lalita(smiling): O Vishaka, there is one more very severe suffering. How have you forgotten it?
Vishaka: Lalita, what is it? Please remind me.
Lalita: O simple girl, it is that, moment by moment, we must continually apply yavaka cosmetics to the flower blossoms of Raha's feet.
Vishaka(laughs): O crooked liar, Lalita, stop! Stop! Radha's feet are anointed with the mineral pigment from Krishna's head. They are not anointed with yavaka.
Radhika(Embarassed):Padma, don't listen to the words of these foul-mouthed girls. just go at once to your dear friend, Candravali.
Padma: As my dear friend orders. (She exits).