The tenth chapter's catalogue does not end; it stops. There is no limit to my divine manifestations, Krishna says, and what has been declared is only an indication given by way of example. Whatever being is glorious, prosperous or powerful, understand it to have arisen from a fragment of my splendour. And then the closing verse: but what is the use of knowing all this in detail, since I stand supporting this entire world with a single fragment of myself.
The breaking off is the chapter's real teaching. A list of divine manifestations that could be completed would define a boundary, and the text refuses to draw one. It gives enough entries to establish the pattern, states explicitly that the pattern is unbounded, and then dismisses the exhaustive version as pointless.
The final image also sets up chapter eleven precisely. A single fragment upholds the world; everything just enumerated is that fragment's work. Arjuna has been given a way of seeing God in things one at a time, and the chapter closes by telling him that this method, however useful, is measuring an ocean with a cup. His response at the start of the next chapter, asking to see the imperishable form directly, follows from that statement rather than from curiosity.
The opening of the chapter is worth reading beside the ending. Arjuna says he accepts all this as true and adds that neither the gods nor the great seers know Krishna's origin, since he is the source of them all. The chapter is framed at both ends by an admission of limit, which is unusual in a passage otherwise devoted to enumeration.