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“The Lalitavistara, a canonical Buddhist life of the Buddha, stages a counting contest: the examiner Arjuna asks the Bodhisattva to count beyond a koti (10⁷), and he recites a centesimal ladder — each name a hundred times the last — through ayuta, niyuta, kaṅkara and onward to tallakṣaṇa = 10⁵³, with further series beyond. High-magnitude number-naming was so culturally prized that a religious biography made it proof of the hero's perfection. Datta & Singh (1938) translate the dialogue. ”