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ghat

In Hinduism, broad steps leading down to one of the sacred rivers. Some of these, known as ‘burning ghats’, are used for cremation.



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They then abandoned the perpendicular line, and made a sharp turn westward toward Ghat, guided, with difficulty, by the Touaregs.
The lama gazed placidly up-stream, where in long, smudged perspective the ceaseless columns of smoke go up from the burning- ghats by the river.
 
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