English: Delmal, also spelled Dilmal, was once a major city in northern Gujarat with numerous Hindu and Jain temples. One group called the Limboji Mata Devabhumi – sometimes referred to as Limbaja Mataji Tirtha – consists of five temples (main shrine is dedicated to Shakti, others to Surya, Vishnu and others). It is an active temple.

Among these five is a smaller shrine is dedicated to Lakshminarayana (Vishnu), which is shown above.

The left part is a side view of the shrine.

The middle part of half section view from the mandapa.

The right part is full section view of the garbhagriya and shikhara (spire).

The modern era temple as seen by visitors has some restorations, but predominantly of 13th-century origin.

After his visit to Delmal, Jas Burgess and Henry Cousens wrote, The surrounding smaller shrines [of Delmal], which were appendages to an older central temple, still remain in good preservation and, by their careful finish and abundant detail, show that they were constructed at a period when Hindu architecture was in the zenith of its excellence. (p. 87, Architectural Antiquities of Northern Gujarat, Burgess and Cousens (1903), Archaeological Survey of Western India, Volume IX)

Delmal has cluster of significant temples, mostly from the 10th to 13th-century era, intricately carved. Other temples are spread within few kilometers of this temple group, all in ruined form, some restored. The ruins artwork and inscriptions found in these temples suggest that the temple tradition here traces to 8th to 10th century, several attempts were made after 14th-century to restore some of the temples after repeated destructions during the Sultanate-era wars. Some damage was also done in late 19th-century, when colonial era contractors dismantled some historic Delmal temples here and carted off the stones and temple parts as masonry for construction work, according to Jas Burgess and Henry Cousens.

This along with the other temples within this Delmal group are an ASI protected and managed monument (N-GJ-171).