burning-ghat

It is the peace that one can see and feel in burning-ghat.

Who is Bush in Bengal ? 2007

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

Kim 2003

It had proclaimed itself above the Vedic hymns of the twice-born Brahmins, standing knee-deep in the sacred river; it had dogged his footsteps among the ash-smeared fakirs, and jewel-hung cows; it had even haunted the burning-ghat where he had stood and watched human bodies burning on their pyres.

A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906

I have done thee a wrong in keeping thee from the burning-ghat, do thou and the crows settle together. '

Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900

It shall be pulled down, and the Municipality shall make a road across, as they desire, from the burning-ghat to the city wall, so that no man may say where this house stood. '

Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

A woman's corpse going down to the burning-ghat, and a bystander says,

Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

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

Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900

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

East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan Frederic Courtland Penfield 1888

From ten to fifteen corpses are disposed of at the burning-ghat daily, and several cremations are usually simultaneously in process.

East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan Frederic Courtland Penfield 1888

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

Following the Equator, Part 6 Mark Twain 1872