Here, Ahalya is interpreted as dry and burnt land, eager for the rains sent by Indra, who is tamed by the wild cyclonic Gautama.

The name is Celtic for "burnt land."

Michael Wile refers to this kind of land when he said he wore his new moose skin trousers "in the burnt land" (Desbrisay, 1895).

For a mile or more the road lifted and dipped with monotonous regularity, and the burnt land was still on either hand, without a sign of life anywhere to be seen.

The burnt land and the black, cindery hills broke the even distance and made it terrible in the reddening light of the setting sun.

They spread the green lush of the benevolent earth Titan Gaia across the burnt land, both healing it and weakening Prometheus.

Not the jungle now; there was a highway in the distance, winding north, it seemed, through barren burnt land.

The previous winter's melting snow and the heavy spring rains had spread a healing poultice of grass across the torn, burnt land.

The smell they had spoken of earlier was the smell of carnage, of a burnt land.

"Not till we have dealt with Amochol," I repeated, staring at the narrow opening which crossed this black and desolate region like a streak of sunshine across burnt land.