Campakalata
Campakalata is expert in supervising the messengers.
She always conceals the intentions behind her actions and is most clever in logical speech. She reveals the inferiority of the opposing party and demonstrates the superiority of her own party by accomplishing tasks and by deftness.
Campakalata is especially skilled in collecting fruits, flowers and edible roots as well as in how to use them. She is highly skilled in making objects out of clay just by cleverly using her hands. She is learned in testing the six kinds of tastes[1] as well as in the scriptures that completely delineate the methods of cooking (suda-sastra). She is known as Mista-hasta[2] because she is skilled in using sugar candy to make sweets of different shapes.
Campakalata is the supervisor of the sakhis and maid-servants who make different preparations from milk; of the eight sakhis beginning from Kurangakshi; and of the gopis who take care of the trees, creepers, bushes and other vegetation of Vraja.
[1] Sweet, sour, bitter, pungent, salty and astringent
[2] Sweet hands
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