Ghat

Marched down to the ghat, which is generally speaking narrow and very strong, opening out here and there, into easier parts extending down the stream all the way; this stream loses itself suddenly, but after a little distance it is replaced by another from the right, where ravines enter: here the pass is well adapted for pillage, elsewhere the sides are so steep, that robbers could not dispose of their plunder. ❋ William Griffith (N/A)

-- Marched ten miles: the road from the camp extended up an acclivity, the ground becoming more broken than usual to the mouth of the ghat, which is four miles distant; thence up to the ghat which resembles much the Bolan Pass, it extends up an inclined plane over a shingly road. ❋ William Griffith (N/A)

India's frontier and "the snows," is the ghat (a ghat is a large stone stairway descending to the river), where the good Hindu gives his dead to the flames, and the muddy inlet from the Ganges where this occurs is dedicated to Vishnu, "the sleeper on the waters," a name singularly appropriate to a place where the ashes of the dead are consigned to the bosom of "Mother Ganga." ❋ Frederic Courtland Penfield (1888)

This word ghat often meets the reader of books on India. ❋ James Kennedy (1857)

The ghat is a 15-minute walk from the temple complex. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The ghat is the exact location where the river is said to leave the Himalayan mountains and start its long journey across the plains of northern India before flowing into the Bay of Bengal. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A portion of the retaining wall on the first 'ghat' at Kerameri caved in and fell on the second turning about a month ago. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was not immediately clear what caused the explosion at around 6:30pm 1300 GMT at a ritual bathing "ghat" on the banks of the Ganges river, which is holy to Hindus, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was not immediately clear what caused the blast at around 6:30pm 0000 AEDT at a ritual bathing "ghat" on the banks of the holy river Ganges in the northern state of Uttar ❋ Unknown (2010)

The "ghat" (bathing steps) in the centre of Haridwar where the naga sadhus will bathe is the central focus of the festival, attracting vast numbers of devotees who strip to their underclothes before entering the water. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You could say it had been evil chance that took me to Meerut and the birth of the Mutiny - but I'd escaped, only to land in the hell of Cawnpore, from which I was one of only five to get clear away after the ghat massacre. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For example, Ewart was killed on the way to the ghat in a palankeen; Vibart's kit was carried and his wife escorted by rebels of his regiment; five loyal sepoys were murdered; Moore ( "the real defender of Cawnpore") was killed in the water, shoving off. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The firing seemed to have slackened, but you could still see the sparkle of the muskets along the slope above the ghat, and the occasional blink of a heavy gun, booming dully across the water. ❋ Unknown (2010)

At left, a man had a holy dip in the Ganges at Dasasvamedha ghat in Varanasi. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Eyewitnesses said the explosive device was hidden in a container on stairs leading to the ghat. ❋ Emily Wax (2010)

According to the police, driver of the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation, in which the trainees were travelling, lost control while negotiating a sharp turn at the Tawandi ghat, on the Bangalore - Pune highway. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When needed, a play pump brings water to ground level where it flows through the slow-sand-dobi-ghat filtration tank. ❋ Unknown (2009)