Thereafter the water produced from electricity was glanced over by the Supreme Personality of Godhead and mixed with eternal time and external energy. Thus it was transformed into the earth, which is qualified primarily by smell.
Srimad Bhagavata Purana
श्रीमद्भागवतमहापुराणम्
मूल श्लोकः
भूतानां नभ आदीनां यद्यद्भव्यावरावरम् । तेषां परानुसंसर्गाद्यथा सङ्ख्यं गुणान् विदुः
bhūtānāṃ nabha ādīnāṃ yadyadbhavyāvarāvaram | teṣāṃ parānusaṃsargādyathā saṅkhyaṃ guṇān viduḥ
SB 3.5.36