Places to See : Eastern Group of Temples

Chitra Gupta Temple
This temple is dedicated to Surya - the sun God. The image of sun 1.5 m (5 ft.) high wearing high boots and driving a chariot of seven horses, is enshrined in the sanctum. The temple resembles the Jagdambi one in plan, design, dimensions and decorations and consists of a sanctum without ambulatory, vestibule, mahamandapa, with lateral transepts and entrance porch.

It has processional friezes of a party of stone carries, hunting scenes and elephant fight and others. The temple has an octagonal ceiling of its mahamandapa which is an elaboration of the square ceiling of the Jagdambi temple. It is a little more ornate and developed then the jad\gdambi one and therefore many have been built a few years later sometime in 1000 - 25 A.D.

Some very fine figures of sura sundaries and erotic couples are curved over the temple walls. An eleven headed Vishnu with the central head of Vishnu and the remaining heads representing the ten incarnations, is carved in the central niche of the south façade.