"Karunesh Shukla (Born 1940), Ph.D. is a former Professor and Chairman of Sanskrit and Prakrit Languages Department and Dean, Faculty of Arts, D.D.U. Gorakhpur University, a Fellow and a Senior Fellow of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi and Department of Culture, Government of India and a Sh?strac???ma?i scholar of the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi. He is the General Secretary, Nagarjuna Buddhist Foundation, a MCC under National Manuscript Mission and is its Co-ordinator since 2005, worked as member of the various government committees. He has visited Rome, Vienna, London, Kathmando and Tononto on scholarly expeditions. He has chaired sessions of the national and international conferences and has lectured in several Indian universities and international forums.