تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.5.5

13.5.5

Those elephants that kill people have their tusks sheathed in sharpened irons like ploughshares, with edges like knives. The elephant-driver rides on the elephant, and when a man is thrown before it, it wraps its trunk around him and tosses him into the air, then catches him on its two tusks, after which it throws him down before it, places its foot on his chest, and does with him whatever the driver commands, according to what the Sultan has ordered. If he orders him to be cut to pieces, the elephant cuts him to pieces with those irons; if he orders him to be left, it leaves him lying there, and he is flayed. That is what was done with these men! I came out of the Sultan's palace after the sunset prayer and saw the dogs eating their flesh, and their skins had been stuffed with straw — God preserve us! When the Sultan made ready for this expedition he ordered me to remain in the capital, as we shall relate, and he went on his journey until he reached Dawlat Ābād; then the amīr Hulājūn rebelled in his territory … that. The vizier Khwāja Jahān had also remained in the capital to muster troops and assemble armies.