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

Example Sentences

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

The fierce current guards and gives privacy to a score of palaces and temples, as well as a burning ghat.

From Caves of Terror by Mundy, Talbot

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)

He would be a rich man that night; bags of rupees; a well thatched house to cover his gray hairs till that day they placed him on the pyre at the burning ghat.

From The Adventures of Kathlyn by MacGrath, Harold