Once upon a time King Chitrabhanu of the Ikshvaku dynasty, who ruled over the whole of Jambudvipa ( India ), was observing a fast with his wife, it being the day of Maha Shivaratri.

As the conclusion of the tale the King said that he had lived in the abode of the Lord and enjoyed divine bliss for a long time before being reborn as Chitrabhanu.

Blackstone explained the basis of the writ, saying " The King is at all times entitled to have an account, why the liberty of any of his subjects is restrained, wherever that restraint may be inflicted.

The meaning of Dromio ’ s line has not been satisfactorily explained by critics, but Oxfordians say the line is somehow connected to the fact that de Vere was given a £ 1, 000 annuity by the Queen, later continued by King James.

But, Fleurieu explained to the King: “ I am not proposing at all, however, the plan for this voyage as it was conceived by Mr. Bolts ”.

" ( Revelation 2: 14 ) Evidently, Balaam returned to King Balak and explained how he was unable to curse the Israelites due to God having control of his tongue, but instead explained to the king on how he could get the Israelites to curse themselves, thereby removing the protection God had on them.

The photograph of the head of the mummy clearly shows the wound in the left eyebrow that the King himself explained in a passage from his Llibre dels fets.

For instance, the widespread motif of a father who wishes to marry his own daughter — appearing in such tales as Allerleirauh, Donkeyskin, The King who Wished to Marry His Daughter, and The She-Bear — has been explained as his wish to prolong his reign, which he would lose after his wife's death to his son-in-law.

The steward explained that the High King had confiscated her sheep because they had cropped the queen's woad-garden.

In a later interview, the King explained how it just " clicked " when they met.

Pilate agrees to condemn Jesus to crucifixion, after the Jewish leaders explained to him that Jesus presented a threat to Roman occupation through his claim to the throne of King David as King of Israel in the royal line of David.

" Moreover, as Rabbi Yechiel of Paris explained in a Disputation that took place before the King and Queen of France in 1240, " Only the erroneously broken vows are annulled, that nobody might commit the sin of intentionally breaking vows.

In a live interview with TV talk show host Larry King, Diamond explained his decision to study medicine by pointing out:

The circumstances surrounding the conception of the boy Galahad are explained by Sir Thomas Malory and derive from the Lancelot-Grail cycle: Elaine, the daughter of King Pelles, the Grail King, uses magic to trick Sir Lancelot into thinking that she is Queen Guinevere, whom Lancelot loves.

The English spelling of the name, George, instead of Georges, the usual French spelling, is explained by his having been named in honour of King George III.

The soldiers, explained Wildman, " desired me to be their mouth ", and he argued on their behalf that the engagements entered into with the King should be cancelled, monarchy and the House of Lords abolished, and manhood suffrage established.

After becoming Bank governor, King explained that Bank of England policy was " similar to that of the Federal Reserve " under Alan Greenspan.

The Samguk Yusa ( 1281 ) explained that after being enfeoffed by King Wu of Zhou, Gija replaced Dangun's descendants as the ruler of Joseon, whereas Jewang Ungi ( 1287 ) identified Dangun and Gija as the first rulers of former and latter Joseon respectively.

When Hrothgar is first introduced in Beowulf, it is explained that he was the second of four children of King Healfdene: he had an older brother, Heorogar, who was king before him ; a younger brother Halga ; and a sister, who was married to the king of Sweden.

" " No ," King Sweyn explained, " Timid the king of the Danes is assuredly not ," defended another of the king's men, " but luck isn't with him and he lacks a victory.

Each of the four Watchtowers ( representing the Elements of Earth, Air, Fire and Water ), is collectively " governed " by a hierarchy of spiritual entities which runs ( as explained in Crowley's Liber Chanokh ) as the Three Holy Names, the Great Elemental King, the Six Seniors ( aka Elders ) ( these make a total of 24 Elders as seen in the Revelation of St. John ), the Two Divine Names of the Calvary Cross, the Kerubim, and the Sixteen Lesser Anegls.

In his statement accompanying his guilty plea, Ridgway explained that all of his victims had been killed inside King County, Washington, and that he had transported and dumped the remains of the two women near Portland to confuse the police.

" King County Prosecuting Attorney Norm Maleng explained his decision to make the deal:

The 30-year-old King explained to Holmes that he intended to marry Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the King of Scandinavia ; the marriage would be threatened if his prior relationship with Adler should come to light.

In the same way he coupled Molesworth and Wharton in a letter to Archbishop King, and he had earlier described him as `` the worst of them '' in some `` Observations '' on the Irish Privy Council submitted to Oxford.

Taking into account Thompson's capacity for self-dramatization and the possibility of a wish to identify his own life with the misfortunes of other poets who had known unhappy loves, there can be no doubt about his genuine emotion for Katie King.

On arrival at headquarters he had, however -- in King Stanislas' words to Glayre -- `` found such favor with Pe Potemkin that he made him his aide-de-camp and up to now does not want him to go join Paul Jones.

In fact, it was not until the King of Spain had visited at Pickfair that Mary and Doug were beckoned to cross the sacred barriers which separate Los Angeles and Pasadena from the hoi-polloi.

The King Arthur had fifty-four overnighters, again counting rooms rather than people.

Well, a man had tried, at the King Arthur, to register with an ocelot.

At the King Arthur one guest had had his head heavily bandaged, and another had a bandaged foot and had walked with crutches.

The man was King Leopold 2, of the Belgians, who in 1885 concluded that he had better grab a colony while the grabbing was still good.

Hecuba, was the wife of King Priam of Troy, and Apollo had a son with her named Troilus.

In Aeschylus ' Oresteia trilogy, Clytemnestra kills her husband, King Agamemnon because he had sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia to proceed forward with the Trojan war, and Cassandra, a prophetess of Apollo.

King Eadbert and his brother Egbert oversaw the re-energising and re-organisation of the English church, with an emphasis on reforming the clergy and on the tradition of learning that Bede had begun.

Angilbert's non-sacramental relationship with Bertha, daughter of Charlemagne, was evidently recognized by the court – if she had not been the daughter of the King, historians might refer to her as his concubine.

Albert was chosen as his successor early in 1511 in the hope that his relationship to his maternal uncle, Sigismund I the Old, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, would facilitate a settlement of the disputes over eastern Prussia, which had been held by the Order under Polish suzerainty since the Second Peace of Thorn ( 1466 ).

The earliest documented event in Alaric's reign concerned providing refuge to Syagrius, the former ruler of the Domain of Soissons ( in what is now north western France ) who had been defeated by Clovis I King of the Franks.

The Lombards under King Wacho had migrated towards the east into Pannonia, taking advantage of the difficulties facing the Ostrogothic Kingdom in Italy following the death of its founder, Theodoric in 526.

These Saxons were tributaries to the Frankish King Sigebert, and their participation indicates that Alboin had the support of the Franks for his venture.

However, Ealdred did not receive the other two dioceses that Lyfing had held, Crediton and Cornwall ; King Edward the Confessor ( reigned 1043 – 1066 ) granted these to Leofric, who combined the two sees at Crediton in 1050.

Although details of the negotiations are lacking, Gruffydd ap Llywelyn swore loyalty to King Edward, but the oath may not have had any obligations on Gruffydd's part to Edward.

William of Malmesbury says that Ealdred, by " amusing the simplicity of King Edward and alleging the custom of his predecessors, had acquired, more by bribery than by reason, the archbishopric of York while still holding his former see.

Gaimar asserts that King Harold did this because he had heard of Duke William's landing in England, and needed to rush south to counter it.

Alexander withdrew to Pherae whilst the Macedonian King placed a garrison in Larissa, as well as in Crannon, which had also come over to him.

In spite of this, it had been agreed with the Serbian Government that Prince Mirko of Montenegro, who was married to Natalija Konstantinovic, the granddaughter of Princess Anka Obrenovic, an aunt of King Milan, would be proclaimed Crown Prince of Serbia in the event that the marriage of King Alexander and Queen Draga was childless .< ref name =" njeg ">