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

A little beyond the Temple of Kali is the burning ghat of Calcutta.

From Modern India by William Eleroy Curtis

At one point there is a burning ghat, and one morning we witnessed the preparation for two cremations, one of a poor man and the other of the wife of a Maharaja.

From Travels in the Far East by Ellen Mary Hayes Peck

All about the burning ghat where the poor dead are being reduced to ashes hundreds are bathing or washing their clothes.

From The Critic in the Orient by George Hamlin Fitch