burning ghat

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

Origin of burning ghat

First recorded in 1875–80

But to return to where I was before; I was about to speak of the burning-ghat.

Following the Equator, Complete |Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Now, whether I have done thee a wrong in keeping thee from the burning-ghat, do thou and the crows settle together.'

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

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

Life's Handicap |Rudyard Kipling

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

East of Suez |Frederic Courtland Penfield