沐手焚香 They Wash Their Hands and Burn Incense
三個小王子聞言，滿心歡喜。即便親擡香案，沐手焚香，朝天禮拜。拜畢，請師傳法。三个小王子闻言，满心欢喜。即便亲抬香案，沐手焚香，朝天礼拜。拜毕，请师传法。
逐句解 Line by line
The three young princes heard this and their hearts were filled with delight.
滿心歡喜, the heart full of delight, is a set phrase and a warmer one than the 十分歡喜, ten parts pleased, that the chapter has used four times for their father. The boys get the fuller version.
They carried the incense table in with their own hands there and then, washed them, burned incense and bowed towards heaven.
親擡, carrying it themselves, is the point — princes do not shift furniture, and servants exist for this. Doing it personally is part of the offering. 沐手 is the ritual washing before an act of worship. 朝 is cháo here, facing towards, the same character that was zhāo, morning, in the city poem.
The bowing done, they asked the masters to transmit the method.
Six characters. 傳法, to transmit the dharma, is heavy vocabulary — it is what a patriarch does to a successor, not what a fencing instructor does to a pupil. The boys asked for martial arts and are using the language of religious succession, and nobody corrects them.
Princes carrying their own furniture is the whole ceremony in one detail. Everything else here is standard rite; that part is theirs.
The phrase for what they ask to receive belongs to the transmission of the dharma from master to heir. It is technically the wrong word for learning to use a rake, and it is about to turn out to be exactly the right one.