Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 03, Chapter 10, Text 08

SB 3.10.8

padma-kosam tadavisya
 bhagavat-karma-coditah
ekam vyabhanksid urudha
 tridha bhavyam dvi-saptadha
 
Translation by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada: 
 
Thus engaged in the service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Brahma 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.
Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 03, Chapter 10, Text 07
Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 03, Chapter 10, Text 09