MOTHER BHAVANI OF TULJAPUR

Some of the young chicks among the Maharashtra leaders invoked the aid of gods other than Bhavani, though she was their family deity and helped them before on several occasions. Result: They were totally routed out, when Ahmad Shah Abdali challenged their supremacy. So Mother Bhavani is believed as Jagrit - living goddess dispensing justice timely and justly. As the Kulaswamini, she corrected the votaries in assuming the forms of Rudraswarupini and Karunaswarupini too according to the situation. Archives embody this truth. The earliest mention of this temple is made in the copper plates belonging to the year 1204 AD. Next in 1398, another grant to the temple was made by devotees on fulfillment of desires. All these sanads help to reconstruct the history of the temple with exact dates, from the thirteenth century onwards but legendary accounts push the date back to the Kritayuga with Brahma's participation in the building of temple etc. and creating of the ponds for the benefit of the deity and the visiting devotees. 

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