The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s12.68

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Tuljabhavani—Tuljapur, four miles from the Khandwa station of the G. I. P. Railway in the district of Nimar (now in the district of Naldurg) in the Nizam's territory (Bom. Gaz., vol. IX, pt. I, p. 549). It is one of the 52 Pithas (Gladwin's Ayeen Akbery, p. 396). It is the Bhavaninagara or Tula-Bhavaninagara of the Sakaravijaya (ch. 19), and Tuljapura of the Devi-Bhagavata P. (VII, 38). It was visited by Sankaracharya. Durga is said to have killed Mahishasura at this place (Devi-Bhagavata, VII, 38 and Burgess' Antiquities of Bidar and Aurangabad, p. 1). The name of the goddess is Mahasarasvati or Tukai.