心慌腳軟 Heart Adrift And Legs Weak
牛王心慌腳軟，急抽身往東便走，卻逢著須彌山摩耳崖毘盧沙門大力金剛迎住，喝道：「老牛何往？我蒙如來密令，教來捕獲你也。」牛王心慌脚软，急抽身往东便走，却逢着须弥山摩耳崖毘卢沙门大力金刚迎住，喝道：「老牛何往？我蒙如来密令，教来捕获你也。」
逐句解 Line by line
The Bull King's heart went adrift and his legs weak; he pulled back in haste and went east, and there met the Vaiśravaṇa Vajra of Great Strength from Ear-Rubbing Crag on Mount Sumeru, who came at him and shouted: "Old bull, whither?
The geography leaves China here. 毘盧沙門 renders Vaiśravaṇa, guardian of the north, and Sumeru is the axis of the world rather than a mountain in a province. 逢著 is the third of the encounter verbs in this passage and takes zháo with the others.
"I hold the Tathāgata's secret order, and am sent to seize you."
Each of the four Vajras cites a different form of the same authority — Śākyamuni by name, then the Buddha's command, then the Tathāgata's secret order, and last the Buddha's own word from the Thunderclap Monastery. The repetition with variation is the point of the sequence. 教 is jiào, "sent to".
心慌腳軟 — heart adrift and legs weak — is the first straightforwardly frightened thing the Bull King has done. He has been flustered before — 慌了手腳 at the leopard and 著了急 at the man-bear — but legs going weak is different in kind, and it arrives at the third of four directions.
The geography leaves China at this point. Sumeru is not a mountain in a province but the axis of the world, and Vaiśravaṇa is the guardian of the north standing in the east. Each Vajra also cites the authority differently — Śākyamuni by name, then the Buddha's command, now the Tathāgata's secret order — so that the same commission is heard four times in four forms.