§ 6 .] 
THE BARDIC PERIOD. [ 700—1300 A.D.] 
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it gives an extract. I suspect that he was really a contemporary of 
another Prithwl Raj (of Bikaner), who lived in the sixteenth century 
(Tod, i, 343 and ff.; ii, 186; Calc, ed., i, 363 and ff.; ii, 203). See No. 73. 
6 . the poet and bard Chandr’ or Chctnd Bar’dal. 
FI. 1191 A.D. 
Rag., ? Sun. He belonged to the family of an ancient bard named 
Blsal Deb, the Ghauhan (cf. Tod, ii, 447 and ff.; Calc, ed., ii, 492 and ff.), 
of Run’thambhor, and, according to the account of his descendant, the 
poet Sur Das, belonged to the Jagat clan. 1 He came to Prithwl Raj’s 
court and was appointed his minister and poet-laureate ( kavlgvara ). His 
poetical works were collected by Amar Siggh (cf. No. 191), of Mewar , 2 
in the early part of the seventeenth century. They were not improbably 
recast and modernised in parts at the same time, which has given 
rise to a theory 3 that the whole is a modern forgery. His principal 
work is the famous Prithi Raj Rag’s a (Rag.), or life of his patron. 
According to Tod 1 5 it is a universal history of the period in which 
he wrote, and is in 69 books, comprising 100,000 stanzas, of which Tod 
has translated 30,000—certainly more than any other European has 
succeeded in doing. Chand and Prithwl Raj were both killed in battle 
fighting against the Muhammadans in the year 1193. As already 
mentioned, one of his descendants was the poet Sur Das, and another was 
the poet Saragg Dhar (No. 8), who is said to have written theHammir 
Ray’sa and the Hammlr Kabya . 6 A portion of the text of the Prithi 
Raj Ray’sa has been edited by Mr. Beames, and another portion edited 
and translated by Dr. Hoernle. The excessively difficult character of 
the task has prevented both scholars from making much progress. 
Pandit Mohan Lai l/isnu Lai Pan did has just commenced editing a 
critical edition of the whole text, of which the first two fasciculi have 
been published (Medical Hall Press, Banaras, 1887). The Mahoba 
1 See tlie account of Sur Das’s genealogy given in No. 37. 
2 Reigned 1597—1621. See Tod, i, xiii (Introd.); 350 andff.; Calc, ed., i, xii; 
371 and fE. 
3 See J. A. S. B., 1886, p. 5, “ On the antiquity, authenticity, and genuineness 
of Chand Bar’dal’s epic the Prithiraj Rasau” by Kaviraj Syamal Das, in which 
our poet is attacked, and “ The Defence of Prithiraj Rasa of Chanda Bar’ddi” 
by Pandit Mohan Lai Visnu Ldl Pandia (Banaras, Medical Hall Press, 1887), 
which is a reply to the former paper. 
4 Tod, i, 254; Calc, ed., i, 273. 
5 Tod, ii, 452n ; Calc, ed., ii, 497n. 
