Manava Dharmashastra 5.55

5.55

nāmadheyanirvacanamarthavādaḥ |
māṃ sa bhakṣayitā | sa iti sarvanāma sāmānyāpekṣaṃ yogyenārthena nirākāṅkṣīkaroti yasya māṃsamaśnāti |

‘Me he (māṃ-sa) will devour in the next world, whose meat I eat in this’—this is the ‘meatness’ (māṃsatva) of the ‘meat’ (māṃsa), as the wise ones declare.—(55).

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
This explanation of the name is a commendatory description.

‘Māṃ sa bhakṣayitā’,—‘He will eat me.’—‘The general pronoun ‘saḥ,’ ‘he,’ has its particular character pointed out by what follows—‘whose meat I eat here.’—(55).

Cf. The Mahābhārata 13.116.35.

This verse is quoted in Vīramitrodaya (Āhnika, p. 531);—and in Sṛmtisāroddhāra (p. 301).

Comparative notes by various authors
(verses 5.54-55)
See Comparative notes for Verse 5.54.