The word is 'Abdicate'.
Its root meaning from Latin abdicatio meaning to disown or renounce (ab, away from, and dicare, to proclaim). Latin means to speak no more. (Ab - Not) & ( Dictum to speak). Meaning that the king will not speak/rule. So if he doesn;t speak, he cannot rule ; so stands down/ leaves the throne.
Give up a throne
King Henry VII did not "give up the throne." His reign ended when he died on 21 April 1509.
Belshazzar did not give up the throne of Babylon. It was taken from him when he was killed when Cyrus the Persian conqured the Babylonian Empire (Chaldean's)
People reported that he gave up his throne to become a Jain Monk.
The word is abdicate. It means to vacate the throne. To give up being the king or ruler of a nation.
Louis-Philippe gave up the throne, and revolutionaries established an unsuccessful republic
2013
Harry has not given up his right to the throne, he is currently fifth in the line of succession.
To give up the Throne is to Abdicate. Abdication, Abdicate now has meaning as 'ducking out of' or avoiding responsibility. So, an absent father may be said to have abdicated his responsibility.
When someone is asked to renounce a throne, he or she is being asked to give up his or her throne. In other words, the person is being asked to disown the throne.
throne = simhAsanam
because he felt like it