In July, he traveled to Vancouver for the 17th tri-annual World Sanskrit Conference. There, he co-organized and presented on a special double-panel examining the single opening verse of the canonical Bhāgavata Purāṇa and its receptive history, including commentaries from the 13th to the 19th centuries CE. August took David to Singapore, where he participated in a workshop on Indian Philosophy, specifically addressing the question of whether postulation (arthāpatti) is epistemologically distinct from inference (anumāna). This workshop is part of an international collaborative effort that will culminate in an edited volume to be published by Bloomsbury, to which David will contribute an annotated translation of part of Cidānanda Paṇḍita’s 14th century CE Nītitattvāvirbhāva. In Singapore, David came to appreciate how much knowing Sanskrit helped in understanding the Malay language.