वा अन्यस्मिन् सपिण्डे स्थविरतरे जिवति

The sapinda relationship extends up to seven degrees. The word स्थविर means 'superior', and स्थविरतर is comparative and means 'more superior', that is to say, superior both by degree of descent and by age. The word जीवति is again read in this aphorism, though there is the anuvritti of जीवति also from 4.1.163. This जीवति of the sutra qualifies the word descendant, the जीवति which is understood by context qualifies the word sapinda thus :-

-\tGarga (dead) -> Gargi (alive)
-\tGarga (dead) -> Gargi (alive) -> Gargya (alive)
-\tGarga (dead) -> Gargi (alive) -> Gargya (dead) -> Gargyayna) or Gargya (alive)

Here the uncle or the brother of a grand-father being alive, the descendant is optionally called Yuvan or Gotra.,