Meaning of ghat | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A descending path or stairway to a river; a ford or landing-place.
   India
2. Alternative spelling of ghat.
   alt-of, alternative
3. A mountain range.
   India
4. A mountain pass.
   India
5. A steep ravine leading to the sea.
   Caribbean
6. A burning-ghat.
   India

Examples

“The abrupt escarpment of the western Ghats condenses so much of the moisture of the south-west monsoon”

“Chunks of wood were being built into funeral pyres on the steps of the ghat that went down into the water; four bodies were burning on the ghat steps when we got there.”

“And farther south, in the interior of the Peninsula, in the elevated tract from 1200 to 2400 feet above the sea, between the Eastern and Western Ghats”

“On the steps of the Manikarnika ghat—the holiest of the city’s stepped riverbanks, upon which Hindu dead are cremated—the fires are already lit, and mourners assemble by the hundred to accompany their loved ones at the end.”

“[…]; insomuch, that after the conclusion of hostilities in the year 1806, he was in the occupation of a territory of not less than eleven pergunnas, whereof the principal were Bairsea, Chipaneer, Ashtar, Shujawulpoor, Sarungpoor, Ichawur, and Sehoree, above the ghâts of the Nerbudda, together with Sutwas, and other places within the valley.”

“Northern Hindu follows, the temples of Orissa and at Benares being conspicuous instances, and the chapter closes with instances from the mixed Hindu style, when the Mahometan conquests had introduced a leaven of new forms, grafting most gracefully upon the native treatment, and producing, in the mausolæa, the palace halls, and the majestic ghâts or landing places, studies of great and novel value to our architects.”

“The other moist zone extends along the western coast of the peninsula, its eastern limit nearly coinciding with the crests of the ghâts, and its width varying from 50 to 100 miles.”

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