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# Rajatarangini (Dvitiya) 37

English (machine translation) 37

- **Language:** English

### [37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.kashmir.rajatarangini.jonaraja~en-mt.37)

Alas, people who blindly follow one another weigh the two forms of Śambhu—the sun and fire, and likewise the moon and water—in mutual equality; / yet when those people have obtained a special distaste for them because of the qualities impossible in their counterparts, \[they look to\] the sun and moon respectively with the lovely sun-gem and moon-gem.

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