Annapurna peaks
About this photograph
- Creator
- Margery H. Freeman
- Date created
- September 25, 1984
- Location
- Poon Hill, Ghorepaani, Nepal
- License
- This photograph copyright ©2007. Terms of use
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One of the Annapurna peaks seen from Poon Hill. Annapurṇā is a Sanskrit name which literally means “full of food,” but is normally translated as Goddess of the Harvests. In Hinduism, Annapurna is a goddess of fertility and agriculture and an incarnation of the goddess Durga.
