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Yes. To be precise, mohanapriya is either the one mohana loves or the one who loves mohana. The root muh means to stupefy and by extension, to perplex etc. mohana is someone who perplexes, and is the usual word for someone who enchants: it is also used as the attribute of some gods like shiva. The root prI means to please or gladden, and priya' is the loved one. mohanapriya could either be the tatpurush compound mohana's priya, i.e. loved by mohana, or a vahubrihi compund mohana is who's priya. They originally differed in the placement of the udatta stress in the compound, but when lexical stress disappeared, the semantic difference between the two parses was considered fine enough to ignore.