This is a controversial matter that "Did Lord Varaha lift the spherical Earth planet (our earth planet) from the Garbhodaka Ocean or He had lifted the greater earthly planetary system which is called in Bhagavatam as Bhumadalam (also known as flatter Earth) from the Ocean of Garbhodaka".
Please see the following verses from Srimad Bhagavatam,
SB 3.18.8
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sa gām udastāt salilasya gocare
vinyasya tasyām adadhāt sva-sattvam
abhiṣṭuto viśva-sṛjā prasūnair
āpūryamāṇo vibudhaiḥ paśyato 'reḥ
SYNONYMS (By Srila Prabhupada)
saḥ — the Lord; gām — the earth; udastāt — on the surface; salilasya — of the water; gocare — within His sight; vinyasya — having placed; tasyām — to the earth; adadhāt — He invested; sva — His own; sattvam — existence; abhiṣṭutaḥ — praised; viśva-sṛjā — by Brahmā (the creator of the universe); prasūnaiḥ — by flowers; āpūryamāṇaḥ — becoming satisfied; vibudhaiḥ — by the demigods; paśyataḥ — while looking on; areḥ — the enemy.
TRANSLATION (By Srila Prabhupada)
The Lord placed the earth within His sight on the surface of the water and transferred to her His own energy in the form of the ability to float on the water. While the enemy stood looking on,Brahmā, the creator of the universe, extolled the Lord, and the other demigods rained flowers on Him.
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From the above verse we can understand that Lord Varaha had lifted the earth from Garbhodaka Ocean and gave energy to float the earth on the surface of water but we know that our earth is not floating on the surface of Garbhodaka Ocean but floating on sky and we can see stars,moon,sun,milky ways from the both hemispheres as well as from Antrtica of our spherical earth which is not possible if our spherical earth is floating on the surface of Garbhodaka Ocean.
So please discuss on this subject for conclusion.
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HK,
In the pastime of Lord Varäha's lifting the earth from the ocean, the earth is frequently depicted by artists as our familiar earth globe. However, the Sanskrit verses of Srimad-Bhägavatam describing this pastime do not use any words denoting a sphere when referring to the earth, and the Visnu Purana indicates that Lord Varäha lifted Bhü-mandala as a whole. The relevant passage states that after lifting the earth from the waters, Lord Varäha divided it into seven great continents, as it was before, thus indicating that the earth that was lifted included the seven dvépas of Bhü-mandala.
This is from "vedic cosmography and astronomy" by HG Sadaputa Pr.
Ys,
Deepak