कहा जाता है कि किसी भी भाषा के अध्ययन के लिए उस भाषा का कोश अनिवार्य है। यह कोश उन सभी की आवश्यकता को पूरा करता है जो पालि पढ़ने में रुचि रखते हैं। यह ‘पालि-हिन्दी कोश’ पालि भाषा, हिन्दी भाषा तथा बौद्ध साहित्य के अन्तरराष्ट्रीय ख्यातिप्राप्त अधिकारी विद्वान द्वारा लिखा गया है। इससे हिन्दी, मराठी, और अन्य भारतीय भाषाओं के छात्र, अध्यापक निश्चित रूप से लाभान्वित होंगे। यह भारतीय भाषाओं में पालि-हिन्दी का अपने ढंग का एकमात्र कोश है।

It is the first Hindi dictionary that contains :

(a) all simple verbs (e.g. आना, जाना, मरना...), as well as

(b) all compound verbs (e.g. group II : चल देना, डूब मरना, भगा ले जाना, उठ खड़ा होना...) and group II : दे भगाना, ले चलना, ले डूबना...) of the present standard language, in both its written and spoken form.

The laxical meanings of all simple and compound verbs :

(a) age given in detail in English and

(b) are illustrated by representative examples of their employment taken from written and spoken taxts.

The compound verbs of group I, e.g., चल देना, डूब मरना, etc., have, in most cases, the same lexical meaning(s) as the first verb of them when this one is used as an autonomous lexeme, e.g. : डूबना⁴ = डूब मरना¹, both meaning, here, ''to drown oneself''; the difference between these two verb forms ties in their grammatical, i.e., above all, aspectual, meanings, but also in their lexical properties and their syntactic and pragmatic functions; the compound verbs of group II, e.g., दे भगाना, ले डूबना etc. are isolated lexemes, i.e., they do not have the same lexical meaning(s) as their first member when this one is used autonomously or alone.

These phenomena cannot be fully demonstrated by the lexical equivalents of the Hindi verbs in English, therefore they are, as far as possible, additionally explained (a) in the 'Introduction' of the dictionary, (b) in the entries of the verb lexemes and (c) by means of the textual examples of their usage.

The dictionary will fill an important gap in the analysis and description of Hindi and thus it will prove to be an indipensable work for all speakers, learners and teachers of Hindi whether in India or abroad.