Matsyapurana 44.8

44.8

āviṣṭā mama tejobhiḥ śoṣayiṣyanti sthāvarān
śuṣkān bhasmīkariṣyanti tena tṛptirnarādhipa //

The Sun.—“King ! I am pleased with you, and I present you with the exhaustless quiver of arrows that would have their effect in all directions. These arrows will be endowed with my potency, and the moment you discharge them on the trees they would be consumed. These arrows endowed with my potency will dry up the trees and reduce them to ashes afterwards, and thus I shall get satisfaction, O Lord of men.”—7-8. Sûta.—Afterwards, the Sun presented him with the arrows, and the latter burnt all the trees with them. He burnt up the villages, hermitages, the population of herdsmen, big cities, forests of ascetics and orchards. In that way, when he consumed the eastern direction it became treeless, grassless, and the land was destroyed along with the south, by that terrible heat.—9-11.