Therefore I have been born in this birth with a recollection of my former existence.
Moreover, no one is equal in might and courage to Prabhasa, and this cave belongs to him on account of his good deeds in a former life, and listen, I will tell you what sort of a person he was in a former existence.
But I, though properly a Vidyadhari, have been born as a Yakshi owing to a curse, and this is the appointed end of my curse, strange as it is, for I remember my former existence.
And so I have been now born, as you see, in this Vidyadhara family, under the name of Jimutavahana, with a power of recollecting my former existence.
Therefore it is plain to me that this earth of ours must be hell, and that we are all here, as the Indian revealed to me--perhaps he was sent to reveal it to me to expiate crimes committed by us in a former existence.
They were brought upon him, he said, by sins committed in a former existence.
I was too wicked in a former existence to play backgammon with a good man like you.
I expect you were a Tory in a former existence; and that is why you are here.
Sufferings or misfortunes are attributed to sins committed in a former existence, and in more than one story two persons are supposed to recollect having many years before lived together as husband and wife.
Whereupon he related the following story concerning a former existence of Ananda.
Preitha is a being in a state of punishment and sufferings on account of sins committed in a former existence.
In a former existence, when he was a bullock, he drew from a muddy place a heavily-laden cart, to save a Brahmin's property and rejoice his heart.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "former existence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
