Also Markandeya: 'Father, grandfather, and great grandfather, these three persons are the participators in Pinda; the participators in Lepa are others -- three (generations) beginning with the paternal grandfather's paternal grandfather and the offered of Pinda being the seventh. This is the relationship extending over seven generations declared by sages'. 9

'This amounts to a declaration that participation by seven generations of the same offering of Pinda establishes Sapinda relationship. If so, there would be no Sapinda relationship with a brother, a paternal uncle and others for they are not included among those specified. It is not so the similarity of ceremony in relation to the identical divinity is intended to be expressed by it.

Some one among those who participate as divinities in the offering made by Devadatta may also participate in offerings made by his brother, paternal uncle and others; and thus the Sapinda relationship of Devadatta is established.'   'Similarly Sapinda relationship arises for the wives out of their joining in the Pinda oblation offered by their husbands. This is called Sapinda relationship through offering.

Others state a different kind of Sapinda relation. They say that those who have the same Pinda or body are Sapindas. So the son is a Sapinda of his father, because of his direct connection with him by particles of the same body; similarly of his paternal grandfather and others, being related to them by particles of the same body through the father.