Markandeyapurana 31.5

31.5

ityeṣa mu nabhiḥ proktaḥ sambandhaḥ sāptapauruṣaḥ /
yajamānāt prabhṛtyūrdhvamanulepabhujastathā //

“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.