तस्मै उ ह ददुः ते वै एते पञ्च अन्ये पञ्च अन्ये दश सन्तः तत् कृतम् तस्मात् सर्वासु दिक्षु अन्नम् एव दश कृतम् सा एषा विराट् अन्नादी तया इदम् सर्वम् दृष्टम् सर्वम् अस्य इदम् दृष्टम् भवति अन्नादः भवति यः एवम् वेद यः एवम् वेद
tasmai u ha daduḥ te vai ete pañca anye pañca anye daśa santaḥ tat kṛtam tasmāt sarvāsu dikṣu annam eva daśa kṛtam sā eṣā virāṭ annādī tayā idam sarvam dṛṣṭam sarvam asya idam dṛṣṭam bhavati annādaḥ bhavati yaḥ evam veda yaḥ evam veda
And they gave to him. These five and the other five — ten in all — make up the kṛta. Therefore in all the quarters of space the ten is food and is the kṛta. This is Virāj, the eater of food: by her all this is seen. All this becomes visible to him, and an eater of food he becomes, who knows thus; who knows thus.
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The vidyā ends with an arithmetic of fullness: five cosmic (fire, sun, moon, waters + Vāyu the gatherer) and five inward (speech, eye, hearing, mind + the prāṇa) — daśa santaḥ — "being ten": tat kṛtam — "that is the kṛta"! — the winning die itself (the throws are reckoned kṛta = 4, tretā = 3, dvāpara = 2, kali = 1: 4 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 10!): the ten gathers in all the throws as the kṛta gathers all the points!
And the name of the ten: saiṣā virāḍ annādī — "this is Virāj, the eater of food": the Royally-Shining (a metre of ten syllables and a cosmic Sovereign!): the ten gatherers of the world and of man are one Virāj, all-devouring and all-seeing: tayedaṁ sarvaṁ dṛṣṭam — "by her all this is seen".
So the story's circle closes: the geese compared the king to Raikva by way of a die — and Raikva's science proves to be the science of the Kṛta itself: he who knows the ten Gatherers is himself the winning throw: everything flows to him, everything is visible to him, all food is his (annādo bhavati!). The doubled ya evaṁ veda closes one of the most perfect tales of the Upaniṣads: of a glory that studied its way up to knowledge, and of a knowledge that sat scratching under a cart.