"... Vatsayana was a law giver like Manu or Kauitilya and was anxious to reconcile Dharma, Artha and Kama the three recognized ends of life by emphasizing their equal importance and harmonious blending, and hence it was not possible for him to reduce his work to gross sexual level as did his successors or imitators in the subsequent erotic writing."
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Basavaraj Naikar in: Literary Vision, Sarup & Sons, 1 January 2005, p. 16
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