The Harishchandra Smashan Ghat is a secondary burning ghat. It is one of the oldest ghats in city,this ghat is named after a mythological king Harishchandra ,who once worked the cremation ground here for the preservance of truth and charity but at the end ,God rewarded him and restored his lost throne and his dead son to him. This is one of the two cremation ghats, and some times referred as Adi Manikarnika (the original cremation ground);still there exist Adi Manikarnika Teerth.