A Vedic ritual text from roughly 1200–800 BCE counts, in one breath, from one to a trillion: eka, daśa, śata, sahasra … up through parārdha — 10¹². Every rung is a clean power of ten with its own name. Classical Greek had no standard number-name above the myriad (10⁴); Latin stopped at mille (10³). A ladder of number names is not yet place-value notation — but it is the habit of mind place-value grew from, and Sanskrit kept extending the ladder for another two thousand years.