Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 14
Sanskrit:
स पद्मकोश: सहसोदतिष्ठत्कालेन कर्मप्रतिबोधनेन ।स्वरोचिषा तत्सलिलं विशालंविद्योतयन्नर्क इवात्मयोनि: ॥ १४ ॥
ITRANS:
sa padma-kośaḥ sahasodatiṣṭhatkālena karma-pratibodhanenasva-rociṣā tat salilaṁ viśālaṁvidyotayann arka ivātma-yoniḥ
Translation:
Piercing through, this sum total form of the fruitive activity of the living entities took the shape of the bud of a lotus flower generated from the Personality of Viṣṇu, and by His supreme will it illuminated everything, like the sun, and dried up the vast waters of devastation.