Travels in India (Tavernier) 39.5.7

39.5.7

After Maille had made all preparations to melt these metals and the idols which had been brought from different places, he accomplished the melting of all except the six large idols of the famous pagoda of Gandikot. It was impossible for him to melt them, no matter how much the Nawab expended; and he even threatened the priests of the pagoda, whom he accused of having bewitched the idols. In short, Maille never accomplished making a single cannon, one being split, another incomplete; and so he relinquished all the work he had undertaken, and sometime afterwards quitted the service of the Nawab.