CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Kisa Gotami was a beraved lady who lived in Benares. She could not endure the grief of her only son’s death so she went from house to house in order to get medicine to cure her dead son. When that did not work, she went to Buddha to bring her son back to life.

Detailed explanation-2: -i) Kisa Gotami was looking for that medicine that can make her child alive. she didn’t get it because there is no medicine to make anyone alive. ii) she went to Buddha to ask help for her child. He asked her to bring a hand full of mustard seeds from that house in which no body has died there.

Detailed explanation-3: -Kisa Gotami had an only son, and he died. In her grief she carried the dead child to all her neighbours, asking them for medicine, and the people said, “She has lost her senses. The boy is dead.”

Detailed explanation-4: -Bring me a mustard seed but it must be taken from a house where no one residing in the house has ever lost a family member. Bring this seed back to me and your son will come back to life.” Kisa Gotami went from house to house, trying to find the mustard seed.

Detailed explanation-5: -Kisa Gotami was devastated by the death of her son and she went from door to door, seeking help. Someone told her to talk to Sakyamuni, Buddha, who then asked her to procure a handful of mustard seeds. This raised hope in Gotami’s heart that her son could be revived.