Dr. Shakuntala Gawde presented a paper on ‘Exploring Gokarṇa Purāṇa- a sthalapurāṇa of Gokarṇa Mahābaleśvara‘ in World Sanskrit conference 2023. This paper was presented in in the Puranans section which was chaired by McComas Taylor (Associate Professor, Reader in Sanskrit College of Asia and Pacific, Australian National University). She participated in panel discussion.