1)Mention the incident which prompted Prince Siddhartha to become a beggar.
2)Why was Kisa Gotami sad ? What did she do in her hour of grief ?
3)Kisa Gotami again goes from house-to-house after she speaks with the Buddha. What does she ask for the second time round ? Does she get ? Why not ?
PLEASE SOLVE THESE QUESTIONS.
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1) Once Prince Siddhartha had gone for hunting where he came across a sick man, an aged man, a monk asking for alms and also witnessed a funeral procession. Unable to understand those sufferings, he became a beggar and went in search of spiritual knowledge.
2)Kisa Gotami was sad because her only son had died. In her hour of grief, she carried her dead child to all her neighbours and asked them for medicine. The people said she was mad because the child was already dead.
3)Gautama Buddha asks Kisa Gotami to procure a handful of mustard seeds from a house where death has never knocked at the door. Kisa Gotami goes from door to door but is not able to find a single house where death has not taken a beloved family member away. She does not get a handful of mustard seeds as death is inevitable and anyone who is born is bound to die one day.