burning ghat

American  

noun

1. a platform at the top of a riverside ghat where Hindus cremate their dead.

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Etymology

Origin of burning ghat

First recorded in 1875–80

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burning ghat

Jackie journeyed to the burning ghat on the Jumna River, laid a bouquet of white roses on the spot where Gandhi was cremated in 1948.

From Time Magazine Archive

A giant burning ghat was erected on the highway.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

We omitted the burning ghat, remembering the one at Benares, but a Hindu temple revealed another repulsive goddess, Kali, and the sacrifice of the goat had just occurred.

From Travels in the Far East by Peck, Ellen Mary Hayes

Such a glimpse it was that came to Devindranath Tagore upon the burning ghat at Benares.

From Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

It is but seldom that a cremation is not in progress at the burning ghat.

From East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan by Penfield, Frederic Courtland