Manvantaras : The Milking of the Earth - Verse 96-97

For the sake of his subjects desirous oflivelihood the Earth in the form of a cow was milked, yielding all sorts of plants, along with the Devas, groups of Sages, Pitys, Danavas, Gandharvas, Apsaras-s, all Punyajanas, creepers and mountains.