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The paper presents a study in the conceptualization of painful sensations in Hindi. It is a part of the on-going Project based on the data of 23 languages – both related and unrelated genetically. The conceptual domain of pain provides ground for cross-linguistic comparison as every natural language has means for describing a great variety of painful sensations. Languages usually have few lexemes of pain per se. The major part of the domain is constituted by lexical units drawn from other semantic fields which are metaphorically applied to pain.