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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.10.8
padma-kośaḿ tadāviśya
bhagavat-karma-coditaḥ
ekaḿ vyabhāńkṣīd urudhā
tridhā bhāvyaḿ dvi-saptadhā
SYNONYMS
padma-kośam — the whorl of the lotus; tadā — then; āviśya — entering into; bhagavat — by the Supreme Personality of Godhead; karma — in activities; coditaḥ — being encouraged by; ekam — one; vyabhāńkṣīt — divided into; urudhā — great division; tridhā — three divisions; bhāvyam — capable of further creation; dvi-saptadhā — fourteen divisions.
TRANSLATION
Thus engaged in the service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Brahmā entered into the whorl of the lotus, and as it spread all over the universe he divided it into three divisions of worlds and later into fourteen divisions.
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His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Founder Ācārya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness