Māsati, Māsana, Māsin [fr. mṛṣ, for massati etc.; see masati| touch, touching, etc. in sense of eating or taking in. So is probably to be read for āsati etc. in the foll. passages, where m precedes this ā in all cases. Otherwise we have to refer them to a root ās=as (to eat) and consider the m as partly euphonic. -- dumapakkāni -- māsita J ii.446 (C. reads māsita & explns by asita, dhāta); visa -- māsita Milo 302 (T. reads visamāsita) having taken in poison; visa -- māsan -- ûpatāpa (id.) Vism 166; tiṇa -- māsin eating grass J vi.354 (=tiṇakhādaka C.). -- A similar case where Sandhi -- m -- has led to a wrong partition of syllables and has thus been lost through syncope may be P. eḷaka1, as compd with Sk. methi (cp. Prk. meḍhi), pillar, post.