˜yÐÄvlog

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burning ghat

noun

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


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˜yÐÄvlog 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.

Intently he looked upon the burning ghat.

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