Padma literally means a flower of lotus. Padma Purana discusses the origin of earth and the world as achieved by Brahma, the Creator. He was born in the form of lotus (He originated from the lotus emanating through the navel of lord Vishnu). The treatise had been apporopriately titled Padma-Purana. Among the Puranas edited and reviewed by sage Vedavyas, it occupies the second place from the importance and the number of quatrains.