Note 209 — LAW AND JUDICATURE.

family; kindred of the same stirpes or stock. These are thus detailed by the Commentator;

1. paternal grandmother,

2. paternal grandfather,

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.