Markandeyapurana 31.3

31.3

pitā pitāmahaścaiva tathaiva prapitāmahaḥ /
piṇḍasambandhino hyete vijñeyāḥ puruṣāstrayaḥ //

“The father, and grandfather, and also the great-grandfather—these truly must be known as the three males who are related by the piṇḍa.[2] And those who are related by the lepa are said to be the three others reckoning upwards from the grandfather’s grandfather: and the celebrant is the seventh among them. Such have Munis declared this seven-ancestral relationship tobe, reckoning from the celebrant upwards. And there-above are those beyond participation in the lepa.