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 birthdo 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.
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.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "former birth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
