मां स भक्षयितामुत्र यस्य मांसमिहाद्म्यहम् ।
एतन्मांसस्य मांसत्वं प्रवदन्ति मनीषिणः ॥
māṁ sa bhakṣayitāmutra yasya māṁsam ihādmy aham |
etan māṁsasya māṁsatvaṁ pravadanti manīṣiṇaḥ ||
(Manu Smṛti: 5.55)
“Me he will eat in the next life whose meat I eat in this life. The wise say this is the basis of meat being [called] ‘māṁsa’ [i.e., ‘mām-sa,’ lit., ‘me’-‘he,’ implying, ‘me he will eat whose meat I eat’].”