Āhāratthaŋ [āhāra + tta] the state of being food. In the idiom āhārattaṇ pharati; Vin i.199, of medicine, ʻ to penetrate into food -- ness ʼ, to come under the category of food; Miln 152, of poison, to turn into food. [According to Oldenberg (Vin i.381) his MSS read about equally ˚attaŋ and ˚atthaŋ. Trenckner prints ˚atthaŋ, and records no variant (see p. 425)].