Chhand

This article is about the quatrain poetic form of North India and Pakistan. For the Vedic poetry, see Vedic metre. For metre in Sanskrit poetry, see Sanskrit prosody. For the Kannada and Telugu poetry, see Chandas (poetry). For the typeface, see Chandas (typeface). For other uses, see Chanda (disambiguation).

Chhand (Punjabi: ਛੰਦ, Urdu: چھند, Hindi: छंद) is a quatrain used in the poetic traditions of North India and Pakistan.[1]

  1. ^ Horace Arthur Rose (1997), A glossary of the tribes and castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province, Atlantic Publishers & Distributors, 1997, ISBN 978-81-85297-69-9, ... Chhand means quatrains ...