ghat
Let an agent explain ghats as riverside steps and their religious, social and practical uses, identify notable ghats, relay heritage and environmental information, and distinguish the steps from the mountain ranges of the same name.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain ghats as riverside steps and their religious, social and practical uses, identify notable ghats, relay heritage and environmental information, and distinguish the steps from the mountain ranges of the same name.
A flight of steps leading down to a river, lake or tank, especially in South Asia, used for bathing, washing, ritual ablution, boat landing and cremation, as along the Ganges at Varanasi; the word also names mountain passes and ranges, as in the Western and Eastern Ghats, from the same root meaning a descent or landing.
What it is for: Access to water for bathing, ritual, washing, transport and cremation.
It can be explain the structure and its uses; identify notable ghats; relay heritage and environmental information; distinguish from the Ghats mountains.
Distinguishing features
Steps to water
Religious and everyday use
Cremation ghats
Riverfront architecture
What it looks like
Broad stone steps descending into a river or tank, often with platforms, shrines and pavilions.
Physical character
ghats at Varanasi: about 88 count
How it is recognised
Stepped embankment to water
Bathing, ritual and cremation uses
The Western and Eastern Ghats are mountain ranges, a different sense
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
is a kind of - a stepped one
is used for - in Hindu practice
is confused with - the mountain range
In practice
Families and kinds
bathing ghats
cremation ghats such as Manikarnika
temple and tank ghats
ghats on rivers, lakes and stepwells
ghats outside South Asia by adoption of the term
Standards and regulation
Heritage protection of historic ghats
River pollution control programmes such as the Ganga action plans
Municipal rules on cremation and use
Failure modes and hazards
Pollution and flooding
Structural decay
Crowd safety at festivals
Sense confusion with mountain ranges
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Identify What a ghat is.
Identity.
Definition
Definition and kinds.
Definition
Definition.
- What is a ghat, and what kinds exist? definition
- Is the question about riverside steps or about the Ghats mountain ranges? boundary
Notable
Notable ghats.
Notable
Notable.
- Which ghats are notable, at Varanasi, Haridwar and elsewhere? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific ghat? action
Use Uses and practice.
Attribution.
Religious
Religious use.
Religious
Religious.
- How are ghats used in Hindu and other religious practice, described with attribution and respect? provenance
- Is the presentation respectful? boundary
Everyday
Everyday use.
Everyday
Everyday.
- How do ghats serve bathing, washing, boats and markets? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Care Heritage and environment.
Practice.
Heritage
Heritage.
Heritage
Heritage.
- How are historic ghats protected and restored? provenance
- Which entry fits heritage conservation? action
Environment
River health.
Environment
Environment.
- How do pollution and river programmes affect ghats? provenance
- Which entry fits the Ganges? action
Context History and architecture.
Context.
History
History.
History
History.
- How did ghats develop, and who built the great ghats of the eighteenth century? provenance
- Which entry fits Indian architecture? action
Architecture
Design.
Architecture
Architecture.
- How are ghats designed for floods, access and ceremony? provenance
- Which entry fits riverfront design? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should notable ghats be separate entries?
- How should heritage and river programmes be linked?
- How should the mountain sense be cross-referenced?