mahasmashana
महाश्मशान mahasmashana'The great cremation ground'; an epithet of Kashi (Varanasi) and of its chief burning-ground, expressing the city's role as the place of sacred death and liberation.
Where this term appears
- The ascetics of the burning ground Treatise
…e dissolution of the fear of it, there is no ground on earth like the Mahasmashana , the Great Cremation Ground, where death yields liberation and the fires never stop.
- The jewelled earring Treatise
The great cremation ground The city has a name for itself that gathers all of this, and it is the hardest of its names. Kashi is the Mahasmashana , the Great Cremation Ground.