Krishna hides his message inside a riddle-verse: strip away one syllable at a time — gi, ri, to, cha, pa, da — and out of the fragments a secret line surfaces: place into my hand the one whose eyes never rest — Radhika. Vishakha and Lalita solve it and blaze up in delight — then at once hide their joy: standing right beside them is Padma, the chief sakhi of Chandravali, Radhika's rival. "So this is it, — they understand, — Krishna is telling us to bring Radhika to meet him." And here is the marvel: Krishna is so deft that he has drawn Padma herself into carrying this message — the rival's closest friend, whose one task is to bring her own mistress to Krishna — and she never grasped how she played into the other side's hands. This is why Krishna is called vidagdha: the sly, artful one, who slips out of any delicate turn scot-free and can reconcile everything.