Chunam

A stucco or calcareous cement used in India. Chunargur', a fortified town of Hindostan, prov. Bengal, on the Ganges, 17 m. S.W. of Benares; pop. abt. 12,000. Chun'chos, an Indian tribe of Central S. America, prov. Ecuador, dist. Jaen. Chund, an eminent Hindoo poet, of the Rajpoot nation, who lived in the 12th cent. His poems are still popular among the Rajpoots. The principal one is a kind of heroic epic, said to contain 100,000 verses, in which he gives a general history of the times he lived in, and of the kings and worthies who then flourished.