Bhashya
एवं प्रागुक्तपदं प्रागुक्तोपास्ये व्याख्याय अथेदानीमुभयापेक्षया द्वितीयं दशमं च पदं व्याख्यातुं देवप्रश्नः—
In plain words
Having worked through that earlier term as it applies to the meditation already laid out, we turn now — keeping both terms in mind — to unfold the second term and the tenth. Here is the gods' question.
Close to the Sanskrit
Thus, having explained the previously-stated term with reference to the previously-stated object of meditation, now, with a view to both, in order to explain the second and the tenth term, [there follows] the question of the gods —