Background
Chand Bardai was born in India in 1149.
Chand Bardai was born in India in 1149.
Chand Bardai's Prithiraj Rasau, a poem of some 100, 000 stanzas, chronicling his master's deeds and the contemporary history pf his part of India, is valuable not only as historical material but 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 written in ballad form, and portions of it are still sung by itinerant bards throughout north-western India and Rajputana.