打上落伽 Clamour At Potalaka
你看那兩個行者,且行且鬥,直來到南海,徑至落伽山,打打罵罵,喊聲不絕。早驚動護法諸天,即報入潮音洞裡道:「菩薩,果然兩個孫悟空打將來也。」那菩薩與木叉行者、善財童子、龍女降蓮臺,出門喝道:「那孽畜那裡走?」你看那两个行者,且行且斗,直来到南海,径至落伽山,打打骂骂,喊声不绝。早惊动护法诸天,即报入潮音洞里道:「菩萨,果然两个孙悟空打将来也。」那菩萨与木叉行者、善财童子、龙女降莲台,出门喝道:「那孽畜那里走?」
逐句解 Line by line
Look at those two Pilgrims: going and fighting as they went, they came straight down to the Southern Sea and made directly for Potalaka Mountain, striking and reviling, their shouting never once breaking off.
你看 — look at them — is the storyteller talking straight to his audience, a leftover from the market-square performances the novel grew out of, and it never quite leaves the prose.
Early on they startled the Dharma-guarding devas, who at once reported into the Tide-Sound Cave: "Bodhisattva, sure enough two Sun Wukongs have come fighting hither."
打將來: the little 將 slipped between verb and direction is Ming street language for coming this way, and takes jiāng. It is not the jiàng of 天將, a general. Both readings turn up within a few passages of each other.
That Bodhisattva, with Mokṣa the Pilgrim, the Boy Sudhana and the Dragon Maiden, came down from the lotus dais and called out at the door: "Where are you going, you cursed beasts?"
The Bodhisattva comes down off her lotus seat and shouts at them like a woman breaking up a brawl in her own front yard. 降蓮臺 takes jiàng, to come down from, as against the xiáng of 降妖寶杖, to subdue. And 那孽畜那裡走 carries both readings of 那 four characters apart: 那孽畜 points at them, nà; 那裡 asks where, nǎ. 畜 is chù, the noun, a beast.
The chase arrives back where it started. Wukong left Potalaka in the chapter's first sentence and comes back to it some six hundred characters later with his double in tow, and the Bodhisattva who declined to give a verdict now has the case delivered to her doorstep, shouting.
The report from the gate is worth its exact wording: 果然兩個孫悟空 — sure enough, two Sun Wukongs. 果然 concedes that this was expected. Word has run on ahead, and the heavens are already bracing for a problem they cannot solve. The Bodhisattva's own greeting, 那孽畜那裡走, addresses the pair as a plural and makes no attempt to pick one out. She is scolding a situation, not a culprit.