2v.753 "Drunk on poetry, I used to wander
From village to village, town to town.
Then I saw the Enlightened One
And faith arose within me. [n.529] Kaveyyamatta, "drunk on poetry," occurs at SN4.13 verse 3. Spk relates here the story of Vangīsa's first meeting with the Buddha, also found at Dhp-a IV 226–28. According to this story, Vangīsa had been a wandering brahmin who earned his living by tapping the skulls of dead men and declaring their place of rebirth. When he met the Buddha, the Master presented him with several skulls, including the skull of an arahant. Vangīsa could guess correctly the rebirth of the deceased owners of the other skulls, but when he came to the arahant he was baffled. He entered the Saṅgha for the purpose of learning how to determine an arahant's realm of rebirth, but soon thereafter discarded this aim when he realized the holy life was lived for a nobler purpose.

3v.754 "He then taught me the Dhamma:
Aggregates, sense bases, and elements.
Having heard the Dhamma from him,
I went forth into homelessness.

4v.755 "Indeed, for the good of many,
The sage attained enlightenment,
For the bhikkhus and bhikkhunis
Who have reached and seen the fixed course. [n.530] If this verse seems narrowly monastic in focus, its counterpart Th 1265–66 corrects the imbalance by mentioning all four classes of disciples:
Indeed, for the good of many
The Tathāgatas arise,
For the women and men
Who practise their teaching.
For their sake indeed
The sage attained enlightenment,
For the bhikkhus and bhikkhunīs
Who have reached and seen the fixed course.
Pāda d reads: ye niyāmagataddasā. Spk glosses: ye niyāmagatā c’ eva niyāmadasā ca; “who have reached the fixed course and seen the fixed course.” Spk-pṭ: “The bhikkhus and bhikkhunīs who are noble disciples of the Buddha have ‘reached the fixed course’ by abiding in the fruit and have ‘seen the fixed course’ by abiding in the path.” Niyāma here no doubt represents sammattaniyāma, “the fixed course of rightness,” i.e., the supramundane path; see 25:1-10 and III, n. 268.

5v.756 "Welcome indeed has it been for me,
My coming into the Buddha’s presence.
The three knowledges have been obtained,
The Buddha’s Teaching has been done.

6v.757 "I know now my past abodes,
The divine eye is purified.
A triple knowledge man, attained to spiritual powers,
I am skilled in the course of others’ minds." [n.531] Spk: Although the divine ear is not mentioned it should be included. Thus he was a great disciple who had attained the six abhiññās.

2"Kāveyyamattā vicarimha pubbe,
Gāmā gāmaṁ purā puraṁ;
Athaddasāma sambuddhaṁ,
Saddhā no upapajjatha.

3So me dhammamadesesi,
khandhāyatanadhātuyo;
Tassāhaṁ dhammaṁ sutvāna,
pabbajiṁ anagāriyaṁ.

4Bahunnaṁ vata atthāya,
bodhiṁ ajjhagamā muni;
Bhikkhūnaṁ bhikkhunīnañca,
ye niyāmagataddasā.

5Svāgataṁ vata me āsi,
mama buddhassa santike;
Tisso vijjā anuppattā,
kataṁ buddhassa sāsanaṁ.

6Pubbenivāsaṁ jānāmi,
Dibbacakkhuṁ visodhitaṁ;
Tevijjo iddhipattomhi,
Cetopariyāyakovido"ti.