Kisa Gotami

Kṛśā Gautamī (Sanskrit: कृशा गौतमी; Pali: Kisā Gotamī) was the wife of a wealthy man of Shravasti. Her story is one of the most famous ones in Buddhism.

After losing her only child, Kisa Gotami became desperate and asked if anyone could help her. Her sorrow was so great that many thought she had lost her mind.

After some time, an old man told her to see the Buddha. The Buddha told her that he could bring the child back to life if she could find white mustard seeds from a family where no one had died. She desperately went from house to house in search of such a case, but to her disappointment, she could not find a house that had not suffered the death of a family member. Finally, the realization struck her that there is no house free from mortality. She returned to the Buddha, who comforted her and preached the Dharma to her.

She became awakened and entered the first stage of enlightenment and eventually became an arhat. The Buddha appointed her foremost in discipline among the bhikṣuṇīs.

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