Chand Bardai was not only a court poet but was a member of the inner circle of the king. French scholar Garsa-de-Tasse certified and testified the authority of this compilation. Impressed by the classic elegance of the work, Colonel Tod translated about 30,000 stanzas into English. According to Colonel Tod, the poems of Chand Bardai have frequent indistinct references to fire arms, especially the malgola. It is a long poem consisting of nearly 100,000 stanzas elucidating a chronicle of his master’s achievements and the historical accounts. He compiled it in the archaic form of Brajbhasa. One of his most famous work was Prithviraj Raso.
He was conversant with the Abhiri, Autkali, Chandali, Dravirhini, Shkari, Swali and Vijaitia dialects. Career and Work The royal poet had mastery of grammar, literature, astrology, prosody and the Puranas. His wives Kamla and Gauran gave birth to 10 sons, namely Sur, Sunder, Sujan, Jalhan, Vallah, Balbhadra, Kehari, Vir Chand, Avdut and Gunraj, and one daughter, Rajabai. The historicity of Prithviraj Raso was proved unreliable by historical writers like Buhler, Morrison, GH Ojha and Munshi Devi Prasad.
The Prithviraj Raso is a source of information on the social and clan structure of the Kshatriya communities of northern India. In its longest form the poem comprises upwords of 10,000 stanzas. There are many versions of Raso but scholars agree that a 1400 stanza poem is the real "Prithivraj Raso". Only parts of the original manuscript are still intact. The Prithviraj Raso was embellished with time and quite a few authors added to it. A charan of Jagati gotra, he was a worshiper of the goddess Saraswati, who gifted him with the boon of Bardai. A native of Lahore, Chand Bardai composed the Prithviraj Raso, an epic poem in Hindi about the life of Prithviraj. Chand Bardai (चंदबरदाई) was a Hindu charan and the court poet of the Indian king Prithviraj III Chauhan, who ruled Ajmer and Delhi from 1165 to 1192.
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