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burning ghat
noun
a platform at the top of a riverside ghat where Hindus cremate their dead.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of burning ghat1
First recorded in 1875–80
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Example Sentences
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A giant burning ghat was erected on the highway.
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But let no one come to thine aid, lest there be nothing of thee left to take to the burning ghat.'
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Such a glimpse it was that came to Devindranath Tagore upon the burning ghat at Benares.
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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.
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Intently he looked upon the burning ghat.
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