other indian polities also carried out executions by elephant. the maratha chatrapati sambhaji ordered this form of death for a number of conspirators, including the maratha official anaji datto in the late seventeenth century. another maratha leader, the general santaji, inflicted the punishment for breaches in military discipline. the contemporary historian khafi khan reported that "for a trifling offense he [santaji] would cast a man under the feet of an elephant."