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 A while ago I read this definition poem by Michael Ondaatje and wanted to know the Sanskrit words referred to ---

"the name for an alcove --- 
of coin washers whose fingers glint ----
all night with dark lead, grains of silver

Here root vowels take
an accent at high altitudes

the way dictionaries
speak over mountains

A single word to portray light ----
from that distant village
reflected in a cloud,
or your lover’s face lit
by the moonlight on a stage

Landscapes nudge the dialect.
In far places travellers know
a faint gesture can mean
desire or scorn,
         just as
a sliver of a phrase thrown away
hides charms within its grammar

         —A guru
“someone with a light touch”
derives from that short vowel, alone
and before a single consonant

The precisely named odour of a man -----
who is a heart-thief

a word for the highest complication ----
during a play used also for impregnation

Attributes of character
link themselves to professions
—a metal worker, the river merchant,
the Commissioner of Oaths,
the census taker of birds who
continues the medieval art
of whistling,

those who carry bees on their arm ----
like a dark flame,

the sullen recluse  -----
who was once the author
of a prayer

This word for a pool before a temple,
or a n s a—“the shape of a shoulder blade”
as in the corner of a holy quadrangle

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     The ancient phrases
give you the coin of escape
—that epithet for those who return
to broken relationships repeatedly
will row you away from confusion

or remain only for remembrance"