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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.

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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

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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.