Ancient Indian mathematicians named powers of 10. According to the Vedas, the name for 10¹² was:

In the Vedic enumeration system, names were given to every power of 10 up to 10¹², called parārdha. Buddha (in the Lalitavistara, c. 4th century BCE) is described as listing names up to 10⁵³ — called tallakṣṇaṇa. India had an early grasp of very large numbers.