The mutual fund of mutual admiration

Given the furiously thriving mutual admiration societies across all platforms including social media, all desperate attempts to make each other's small talk look like profound sermons, one is reminded of the highly incisive Sanskrit verse in anushtup chanda* (अनुष्टुप छंद)

उष्ट्राणां विवाहेषु , गीतं गायन्ति गर्दभाः ।

परस्परं प्रशंसन्ति अहो रूपं अहो ध्वनिः ll

In a camel wedding ceremony, donkeys, as the guests of honour, presented their finest musical renditions. While they were all praise for the natural beauty of their hosts, the camels in turn hailed the singing effort no end.

PS: No animals were harmed during the making of this post and no offense meant to both species, both sincere, hardworking and spiritual, and the most diligent practitoners of detachment in its purest form, and yet ruthlessly domesticated by predatory humans.

Anushtup chanda is a Sanskrit meter, a quatrain with 8 syllables per line. 5th syllable of each line is short (laghu) 6th syllable of each line is long (guru). 7th syllable of 1st and 3rd lines is guru, but the 7th syllable of 2nd and 4th lines is laghu. A pause (yati) follows every 8th syllable. It is pertinent to note that this intricate rule framework doesn't make the verse rigid, the charm is intact. That's the inherent beauty of Sanskrit Prosody.