When her son dies, Kisa Gotami goes from house to house. What does she ask for? Does she get it? Why not?
When her only son dies, Kisa Gotami goes from house to house carrying his dead body and asking her neighbours for medicine to cure him.
She does not get the medicine she asks for.
The people refuse to give her medicine because the boy is already dead, and no medicine can revive a lifeless body. They believe she has lost her senses because she cannot accept the reality of her son's death and continues to seek a cure for him.
Explanation
The textbook passage clearly states that in her grief, Kisa Gotami carried her dead child to all her neighbours asking for medicine. The people responded by saying she had lost her senses because the boy was dead, which is why she could not get what she was asking for.