गोस्वामी तुलसीदास की कृति ’रामचरितमानस’ ‘भक्ति-शक्ति और मुक्ति’ की कृति है। चार सौ वर्षों के बाद भी जन-जन में समाहित इस कृति में 'युग का समय और समय का युग' एक सम्पूर्णता में श्रेष्ठतम सृजन में 'देखने' और 'दिखने' को मिलता है। यह पुस्तक उसी समय-सृजन युग से जुड़ने और जोड़ने की एक सतत प्रक्रिया प्रतीत होती है।

यह पुस्तक रामकथा के बहाने हाशिए की ज़िन्दगी जी रही जनजातियों के लिए एक सामाजिक और सांस्कृतिक पृष्ठभूमि भी तैयार करती है कि वही भक्ति सच्ची भक्ति है, जिसमें शक्ति के स्रोत हों और वही शक्ति वास्तविक शक्ति है, जिसमें मुक्ति की सम्भावना हो।

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.