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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 10]
by this;  lokān —all the planets;  prāñc-līnān —previously merged in dissolution;  kalpitāsmi —I shall create;  iti —thus;  acintayat —thought like that.
TRANSLATION
Thereafter he saw that the lotus on which he was situated was spread throughout the universe, and he contemplated how to create all the planets, which were previously merged in that very same lotus.
PURPORT
The seeds of all the planets in the universe were impregnated in the lotus on which Brahmā was situated. All the planets were already generated by the Lord, and all the living entities were also born in Brahmā. The material world and the living entities were all already generated in seedling forms by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and Brahmā was to disseminate the same seedlings all over the universe. The real creation is therefore called  sarga , and, later on, the manifestation by Brahmā is called  visarga .
TEXT 8
पद्मकोशं तदाऽऽविश्य भगवत्कर्मचोदितः । एकं व्यभाङ्गीदुरुधा त्रिधा भाव्यं द्विसप्तधा ॥ ८ ॥
padma-kośam tadāviśya bhagavat-karma-coditaḥ ekam vyabhāṅkṣīd urudhā tridhā bhāvyam dvi-saptadhā
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;  vyabhāṅkṣīd —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.