Sentence:  [...] Murasaki, who stood before me and with an expression of perfect joy said to me, 'Buddha and Heaven have taken pity on me; for the life on earth, life in Senland is vouchsafed me, a home in Horai is accorded me; in the <WSD>forelife</WSD> of the Princess, in the <WSD>forelife</WSD> of my lord, Yamabito, was the bond created that presaged their eternal wedlock, when they shall shake them [...] 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A former or previous life