Between the Sabha Mandapa and the Sanctum Sanctoruim is a beautiful hall with pillars and arches, whose facade has been renovated and partially redone, and the walls have 12 niches showing the different aspects of the Sun God in each month. The Sanctum Sanctoruim was the highlight of the temple before it was plundered by Mahmud Ghazni, designed such that the rays of the rising and setting sun on the day of equinox, fell on the bejewelled statue built by the Surya Vanshi Solanki Rajputs in honour of their ancestral God.

Few carvings were allowed to diminish the might of this statue in the main shrine, but the outer walls are filled with sculpture of Surya, the Sun God on his 7 horse drawn chariot, Kubera, the God of wealth, Varuna, the Sea God, Vishnu with his serpent and Durga. In another part of the temple, you can see the depiction of the various cycles of human life-a mother giving birth to a child, parents bringing up their children, the life of a family-and a whole kama sutra of traditional erotic sculpture showing various poses of sex, masturbation, oral intercourse and nudity in a style that rivals that of Khajurao and Konark. It was as if the temple builders meant to show that everything outside the temple was material and worldly, inside only.