"[T]he Lalitavistara, relates that when the Bödhisattva was of age to marry, the father of Gopa, his intended bride, demanded an examination of the five hundred suitors, the subjects including arithmetic, writing, the lute, and archery. Having vanquished his rivals in all else, he is matched against Arjuna the great arithmetician and is asked to express numbers greater than 100 kotis. In reply he gave a scheme of number names as high as 1053, adding that he could proceed as far as 10421... which suggests the system of Archimedes and the unsettled question of the indebtedness of the West to the East in the realm of ancient mathematics."