One time, a messenger, seeing that Jaṭilā had gone to the village, brought Kṛṣṇa to meet Rādhā in Rādhā’s house. Suddenly Jaṭilā appeared and saw her daughter-in-law enjoying with Kṛṣṇa. She began to scold Rādhā. In order to deceive her, Kṛṣṇa spoke these words. “O old lady! I have not even looked at your yogurt. I make that oath. Your bold daughter is sniffing my mouth in order to confirm if I have eaten the yogurt. You should teach your daughter that such hostile doubts—unsubstantiated-- should not be entertained for cultured persons such as myself.” The messenger could not stop herself from laughing.

Bringing yogurt to the forest on the pretext of performing worship of the devatās, the gopīs were moving about here and there in order to pick flowers. Kṛṣṇa was carrying on an exchange with one gopī who was assigned to safeguard the yogurt alone by staying next to it. Suddenly one coy gopī appeared and began sniffing Kṛṣṇa’s mouth to see if He had eaten the yogurt. Kṛṣṇa refers to her in this verse. Sometimes jarati (old woman) replaces sumukhi and vadhu (young woman) replaces sakhī, but this is not the accepted version.