: a level space at the head of a ghat for cremation
Examples of burning ghat in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebWaving away pyre smoke at the riverbank, the homeless priest Pandey explained how the fires of Varanasi’s burning ghats were virtually eternal—rekindled from ember to ember across thousands of continuous years of cremations.—Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 21 Mar. 2019 On our last afternoon, a small group of us take a boat to the burning ghats.—Skye McAlpine, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 June 2018
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