Māsati, Māsana, Māsin [from mr̥ṣ, 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 following 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 Ja II 446 (commentary reads māsita and explains by asita, dhāta); visa-māsita Mil 302 (Text reads visamāsita) having taken in poison; visa-māsan-ūpatāpa (the same) Vism 166; tiṇa-māsin eating grass Ja VI 354 (= tiṇakhādaka commentary). — A similar case where sandhi -m- has led to a wrong partition of syllables and has thus been lost through syncope may be Pāli eḷaka 1 , as compared with Sanskrit methi (cf. Prākrit meḍhi), pillar, post.