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Example sentences for "former birth"

  • As regards myself, I was born in a large family, in a former birth of mine.

  • Thou hast reaped this fruit in consequence of thy having instructed me (in my former birth).

  • Thus it is clear that thou wast my wife in a former birth.

  • Moreover thou wast my wife in a former birth.

  • When Siva had thus spoken, Parvati asked, "How can I have been thy wife in a former birth?

  • The acts done (by a person) in a former birth do not perish, (without producing their effects).

  • In the order of creation, thou mayst, in a former birth, have been begotten by this pigeon.

  • Yet, O Pandava, to this day the memory (of my former birth) hath not forsaken me!

  • In the previous Kalpa, in my former birth, I was born of a certain maid-servant of Vedic Rishis.

  • Then, endowed with the recollection of his Vedic knowledge in a former birth, "he said first: This am I" viz.

  • Similarly by marking the tendencies of the mind their connection with a former birth is inferred.

  • Too late they repented, and died of grief; and her father became a parrot, keeping from a former birth as a sage his memory of the Castras, while her mother became a sow.

  • What caused thy remembrance of a former birth?

  • And now, well I discern the terrible consequences of sins committed in a former birth, for now I am without resource, resembling one that walks in inky darkness, whose every step may plunge the point of a sword into his heart.

  • And not now only has Devadatta been deprived of his following; in a former birth also he was the same.

  • Sāriputta come in glory, surrounded by the assembly of his brethren; in a former birth, also, he did the same.

  • Bhaddiya full of joy; he was so also in a former birth.

  • For even apart from the promptings of a former birth, thy beauty and thy haunting voice, which I seem as it were to have heard before, are quite sufficient to rouse emotion even in a stone, much more in a man of flesh and blood.

  • But all this has come about by reason of a fault of mine, itself, beyond a doubt, the bitter fruit of the tree of crimes committed in a former birth.

  • Dost thou not hear them also, those voices of a former birth?

  • And Arunodaya said: I will marry no other woman but the wife of my former birth.

  • For I, too, have suddenly remembered my former birth: as if this recollection of thine had been the spark required, to set fire to the memory of my own.

  • But the worst of all is, as in this King's case, when dreaming is intermingled with the reminiscences of a former birth: for then it becomes fatality.

  • For it may be, the Deity took this form, to punish the King, by means of a dream, for the sins of a former birth.

  • For I remember my former birth, and I can see my husband, sorrowing for my absence away below.

  • When king Asoka, in a former birth,(1) was a little boy and played on the road, he met Kasyapa Buddha walking.

  • Perhaps "a former birth" is the best translation.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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