Chand Bardai (died c. 1200[1]) was an Indian poet who composed Prithviraj Raso, an epic poem in Brajbhasa about the life of the Chahamana king Prithviraj Chauhan.

According to it, after Prithviraj was defeated at the Second battle of Tarain and taken to Ghazna by Muhammad of Ghor, Chand Bardai travelled to Ghazna and helped Prithviraj kill Muhammad.

Prithviraj Raso was proven to be historically unreliable and inaccurate by historians like Georg Bühler, Morrison, GH Ojha and Munshi Devi Prasad.

[4][page needed][1][5] Not much is known about his personal life apart from the various details that are entailed in Prithviraj Raso.

His work is the earliest surviving text in a Western Hindi lect.