Crossword clues for annapurna
annapurna
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Annapurna \Annapurna\ n. [proper name]
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(Hinduism) wife of Siva and a benevolent aspect of Devi: goddess of plenty.
Syn: Parvati, Anapurna
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1 a mountain in Nepal, 26,504 feet high.
Syn: Anapurna
Wikipedia
Annapurna: First Conquest of an 8000-meter Peak (1951) is a book by French climber Maurice Herzog, leader of the first expedition in history to summit and return from an 8000+ meter mountain, Annapurna in the Himalayas. It is considered a classic of mountaineering literature and perhaps the most influential climbing book ever written.
Annapurna is a massif in the Himalayas, in north-central Nepal.
Annapurna or Annapoorna may also refer to:
- Annapurna Sanctuary, a high glacial basin lying below the mountain range
- Annapurna (book), story of the first recorded expedition to reach the summit
- Annapoorna devi, a Hindu goddess
- Annapurna Devi (Roshanara Khan), Indian classical instrumentalist
- Annapurna FM, a Nepali radio station
- Annapurna, Nepal, a village in Bhojpur District in the east of the country
Annapurna is a 1960 Telugu Drama film directed by V. Madhusudan Rao.
Usage examples of "annapurna".
But Captain Padorje, Echo Company's CO, had insisted on attempting to carry out Colonel Sharwa's order to retake the Annapurna Arms.
If Chiawa had had a single full platoon of them under his command at the Annapurna Arms, none of this would have happened.
And suggesting that we use the Annapurna Arms was a stroke of brilliance on Brigadier Jongdomba's part, if I may say so myself.
Even if it was not the sky over the Bay of Naples, or seen from the flank of Annapurna or from a vessel cast adrift in the middle of the blackened sea.
His own estimate of his military capabilities had crashed and burned with the disaster at the Annapurna Arms, and a part of him wanted to tell Munming how wrong he was.
Whatever actually went down at the Annapurna Arms, these people are screwed.
The outburst of fire was as brief as it was sudden, and then Chiawa heard the baying howl of hundreds of voices as the mob outside the Annapurna Arms charged the building.
And Dhalagiri and Annapurna only forty or fifty kilometers apart, I think.
And Dhaulagiri and Annapurna only forty or fifty kilometers apart, I think.