3. paternal uncles,
4. sons of the uncles,
on failure of paternal grandfather's line, then,
5. paternal great-grandmother,
6. paternal great-grandfather,
7. their sons,
8. their sons' offspring.
All of whom (proceeds the Commentator) are sapiṇḍas, connected by food oblations. If they fail, then follow those connected by the water oblation only, viz. seven degrees in the ascending line beyond sapiṇḍas, i. e. samánodacas.
[210] divided by the Commentator into three classes, viz.
1. of one's self, 2. of one's father, 3. of one's mother; as, the sons of a father's or of a mother's sister, or a maternal uncle (one's own kin)—the sons of a father's paternal or maternal aunt, or a father's maternal uncle (a father's kin)—and those in the same relation to a mother.