(accord. to some) ‘sporting well’, a potent or highly erotic lover (in this meaning fr. √ div, ‘to play’, and opp. to vi-deva, ‘impotent, unerotic’), [RV. x, 95, 14]; [AV. xx, 136, 12]
su—devá mfn. having the right gods, protected by them, [RV.]; [TS.]