She is a goddess who is the source of all entities and abounds with examples of the agreeable and the disagreeable.' Sound, likewise touch, colour, taste, and smell for the fifth, these are the five qualities of earth, O foremost of twice-born ones. Smell always belongs to carth, and smell is said to be of various kinds.
सर्वभूतकरी देवी शुभाशुभनिदर्शिनी॥ शब्दः स्पर्शस्तथा रूपं रसो गन्धश्च पञ्चमः। एते पञ्च गुणा भूमेर्विज्ञेया द्विजसत्तमाः॥ पार्थिवश्च सदा गन्धो गन्धश्च बहुधा स्मृतः।