A part from the great, overall beauty of the temple, its sculptural decoration is worthy of particular praise. Along the three sides of the trench other rooms and shrines were created. The shrine on the northern side has beautiful images of the sacred river goddesses, Ganga, Yamuna, and Sarasvati. The temple and its walls were also decorated with sculptured panels and auspicious motifs. culpture depicting episodes from the epic poems: Ramayana (southern side front of temple) and Mahabharata (opposite side northern front wall), and Puranic myths about Shiva (Ravana disturbing Shiva and Parvati on the southern side wall); and a few amorous couples on the temple walls.
The gateway is adorned with a lovely pair of river goddesses; the entrance mandap has a figure of Lakshmi, and within and around the temple the walls abound with sculptural details that dance and spring out of its dark surface. When the sculptures were finished, painted, and fine details completed the temple had no additional structures joined to it. This implies that in the process of carving out the temple from the rock no error whatsoever had been made anywhere in the course of the entire project.
Today the Kailash temple stands testimony to the devotion and faith of the artists who converted mountains into shrines and will remain one of the most spectacular rockcut monuments in the world.