Kisa (Pali: "thin"). **Kisa Gotami** was the Buddhist nun central to one of the most famous parables in Buddhism. **When her young child died, she carried his body across the city begging anyone for medicine to revive him.** The Buddha told her he would help if she brought him a mustard seed from any house that had never known death. **Going house to house, she found none — and so understood the universality of suffering.** She returned, buried her son, and joined the Sangha.
**Among the most beloved figures of early Buddhism.**
Kisa reduces to three — the number of mustard seed parable.