ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>CHAND</TITLE> <style type="text/css"> .BODY { background-color: #EAF1F7; background-image: url('images/gtbh.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: center; color: #0066CC;} .C1{text-align: justify;color: #0066CC;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .BIB{text-align: center;color: #000099;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .CONT{text-align: right;color: #FF0000;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} </style><META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="CHAND"> <META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></HEAD> <BODY class="BODY" oncontextmenu="return false" ondragstart="return false" onselectstart="return false"> <FONT ALIGN="JUSTIFY" FACE="Tahoma"> <p class="C1">&#65279CHAND or CHAND&#256, a goldsmith by profession, was one of the poets and scholars who enjoyed the patronage of Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh (<i>See</i> BAVAÑJ&#256 KAV&#298). He rendered "Udyoga Parva" of the <i>Mah&#257bh&#257rata</i> into Hindi verse. His work is preserved as a part of a <i>Mah&#257bh&#257rata</i> manuscript in the private collecton of the Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 of Pa&#7789i&#257l&#257. In one of the couplets at the beginning of his work, the poet says that he had already translated "Kar&#7751a Parva" from the Sanskrit text, but no copy of this work is known to exist. Another short work of Chand is <i>Par&#299chh&#257</i>, preserved in manuscript (No. 135) in the Languages Department, Punjab, at Pa&#7789i&#257l&#257. Miscellaneous devotional stanzas by Chand have also been located in other manuscripts. A manuscript, <i>Triy&#257 Charitra</i>, with Chand as the author's pseudonym, is also ascribed to this poet.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1">Padam, Pi&#257r&#257 Si&#7749gh, <i>Darb&#257r&#299 Ratan</i>. Patiala, 1976<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Pi&#257r&#257 Si&#7749gh Padam<br></p><BR> </font> <img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""> </HTML></BODY>