Avatarika
अथ हैन विदग्धः शाकल्यः पप्रच्छ ।पृथिव्यादीनां सूक्ष्मतारतम्यक्रमेण पूर्वस्य पूर्वस्य उत्तरस्मिन्नुत्तरस्मिन् ओ-तप्रोतभावं कथयन् सर्वान्तरं ब्रह्म प्रकाशितवान् ; तस्य च ब्रह्मणो व्याकृतविषये सूत्रभेदेषु नियन्तृत्वमुक्तम्— व्याकृ-तविषये व्यक्ततरं लिङ्गमिति ।तस्यैव ब्रह्मणः साक्षादपरो-क्षत्वे नियन्तव्यदेवताभेदसंकोचविकासद्वारेणाधिगन्तव्ये इति तदर्थं शाकल्यब्राह्मणमारभ्यते—
In plain words
Then clever Śākalya put his question to Yājñavalkya. Tracing the elements from coarse to fine, one woven through the next like warp through weft, Yājñavalkya had already shown Brahman as the innermost reality of everything. And of that same Brahman, in its manifest form, the earlier sections had already shown it as the controller — the sign is clearer, they said, wherever things are differentiated. Now, so that this same Brahman can be grasped directly and immediately, through the narrowing and widening of the deities that stand under its control, the Śākalya section begins.
Close to the Sanskrit
Then indeed clever Śākalya asked him. By the sequence of the subtlety and grossness of earth and the rest, describing the state of each preceding thing being interwoven, warp and woof, in each following thing, he has illumined Brahman that is the inmost of all. And of that Brahman, in the domain of the manifest, in the divisions of the earlier discussion, its being the controller has been stated: 'in the domain of the manifest the sign is clearer' — thus. In order that that very Brahman be attained directly and immediately, through the contraction and expansion of the divisions among the deities that are to be controlled, for that purpose the Śākalya-brāhmaṇa is begun.