CHAND BARDAI (c. A.D. 1200), Hindu poet, a native of Lahore, who lived at the court of Prithiraj, the last Hindu sovereign of Delhi. His Prithiraj Rasau, a poem of some 1 oo,000 stanzas, chroni cling his master's deeds and the contem porary history of his part of India, is valu able as the earliest monument of the Western Hindi language, and the first of the long series of bardic chronicles for which Rajputana is celebrated. It is writ ten in ballad form, and portions of it are still sung by itinerant bards throughout north-western India and Rajputana.