CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: At the age of 25, while hunting, one day Buddha saw a sick man, then an aged man, then a funeral procession and finally a monk begging for alms. These moved him so much that he went out into the world to seek enlightenment.

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer. He wandered for seven years and finally sat down under a peepal tree, where he vowed to stay until enlightenment came. Enlightened after seven days, he renamed the tree the Bodhi Tree and began to teach and to share his new understandings. At that point he became known as the Buddha.

Detailed explanation-3: -noun. the act of lamenting or expressing grief.

Detailed explanation-4: -Siddhartha’s departure at 29 years old is also seen as historical. With regard to Prince Siddhārtha’s motivations in renouncing the palace life, at the time of the renunciation, the Śākyans were under military threat by the kingdom of Kosala.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Buddha asked her to find a house where no one had lost a loved one, but Kisa was unable to find any such house. She then saw the flickering lights of city and realised that people’s lives are similar to these lights which rise and then extinguish. In this way, she realised that life and death is a normal process.