burning ghat

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of burning ghat¹

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

But that is thy child on thy shoulder—given over to the burning-ghat not two days ago.

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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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It was about eight o'clock in the morning when my boat reached this burning ghat.

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Social distinctions are as marked at the Benares burning-ghat as in the modern American cemetery.

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A woman's corpse going down to the burning-ghat, and a bystander says, 'She died at midnight from the heat.'

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