Crossword-Solution: ANNAPURNA
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| 35-mi.-long massif in the Himalayas. | 1 answer |
| Adventurous best seller. | 1 answer |
| Best seller of modern adventure. | 1 answer |
| Herzog best seller. | 1 answer |
| Highest mountain conquered by man. | 1 answer |
| Himalayan massif | 1 answer |
| Lofty peak in Nepal. | 1 answer |
| Mountain peak in Herzog's saga. | 1 answer |
| Peak of Nepal, 26,502 feet high. | 1 answer |
| Nepalese peak | 2 answers |
| ASIA MOUNTAIN | 41 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REEAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ANNAPURNA (5)
Before the seed is sown, a small quantity is set apart as an offering to the goddess Annapurna Iswari.
Amidst the ruins of Barolli are seen sculptured the Grecian helmet; and the elegant ornament, the Kumbha, or ‘vessel of desire,’ on the temple of Annapurna (_i.e._ ‘giver of food’), the Hindu Ceres, has much affinity to the Grecian device.
This Isis of the Suevi was evidently a form of Ertha, the chief divinity of all the Saxon races, who, with her consort Teutates or Hesus[4.21.48] (Mercury), were the chief deities of both the Celtic and early Gothic races: the [574] Budha and Ila of the Rajputs; in short, the earth,[4.21.49] the prolific mother, the Isis of Egypt, the Ceres of Greece, the Annapurna (giver of food) of the Rajputs.
Lakshmi, though on this festival depicted under the type of riches, is evidently the beneficent Annapurna in another garb, for the agricultural community place a corn-measure filled with grain and adorned with flowers as her representative; or, if they adorn her effigies, they are those of Padma, the water-nymph, with a lotos in one hand, and the _pasa_ (or fillet for the head) in the other.
The beneficent and beautiful Lakshmi, whom all adore, whether as Annapurna (the giver of food), or in her less amiable character as the consort of the Hindu Plutus, seems to have excited a double portion of the zealots’ ire, who have not only visited her face too roughly, but entirely destroyed the emblems of nourishment for her universal progeny.
Quotes with ANNAPURNA (1)
The light irradiates white peaks of Annapurna marching down the sky, in the great rampart that spreads east and west for eighteen hundred miles, the Himalaya- the alaya (abode, or home) of hima (snow).Hibiscus, frangipani, bougainvillea: seen under snow peaks, these tropical blossoms become the flowers of heroic landscapes. Macaques scamper in green meadow, and a turquoise roller spins in a golden light. Drongos, rollers, barbets, and white Eqyptian vulture are the common bir…
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1953–2001).