Crore / Crores
Literal Meaning
Ten million
Etymology & Sanskrit Root
Hindi 'karor', from Sanskrit 'koti': the traditional South Asian numbering unit equal to ten million (1,00,00,000).
Spiritual Insight & Context
Jataka and Puranic tales often describe a wealthy household's fortune in crores to signal almost incomprehensible riches, the ancient equivalent of naming a figure in the billions today.