Markandeyapurana 49.69

49.69

āḍhakāścaṇakāścaiva gaṇāḥ saptadaśa smṛtāḥ /
ityetā oṣadhīnāntu grāmyāṇāṃ jātayaḥ purā //

Suffering from hunger, they resorted to Brahmā, the most high, as their preserver. And he, the mighty lord, knowing full well then that the earth had swallowed it up,[46] milked her treating mount Meru as her calf.[47] This earth-cow was then milked by him, the cereals came into existence on the face of the earth, the seeds, the cultivated and wild plants besides, which are annuals,[48] known as comprising seventeen classes according to tradition. The various kinds of both rice and barley, wheat, aṇu grain,[49] sesamum, priyaṅgu,[50] udāra,[51] koradūṣa,[52] and cīnaka,[53] māṣa,[54] green gram,[55] and masūra,[56] the finest pulse,[57] and kulatthaka,[58] āḍhaka pulse,[59] and chick-pea[60] and hemp[61] are known as the seventeen classes. These are the olden kinds of cultivated plants.