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in reply to a message by Caprice
Are you sure they are of Hindi (a modern North Indian language) origin? I ask because the names hark back to a period in the long past when South India colonized (in its precolonial sense) a lot of South East Asia. The names are indeed often of Sanskrit origin, since these were Hindu (a religion or culture from India) names, and Sanskrit was the sacred language.
Of course channary could be from Hindi chA~d (the ~ represents nasalization; the Sanskrit was chandra) + nArI (both Hindi and Sanskrit). kRSNa (black) again is of course the name of the divine character, again both Hindi and Sanskrit
Funnily, I haven't heard these names in India: though names or words with similar meanings exist. kRSNacandra was the name of a king, candravadanI (vadan from vad to speak means face) is a common adjective in old stories, candrakumArI (kumArI means a young girl or a virgin or a daughter) is a recognizable name.
Of course channary could be from Hindi chA~d (the ~ represents nasalization; the Sanskrit was chandra) + nArI (both Hindi and Sanskrit). kRSNa (black) again is of course the name of the divine character, again both Hindi and Sanskrit
Funnily, I haven't heard these names in India: though names or words with similar meanings exist. kRSNacandra was the name of a king, candravadanI (vadan from vad to speak means face) is a common adjective in old stories, candrakumArI (kumArI means a young girl or a virgin or a daughter) is a recognizable name.
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