THE MYSTERY OF THE INDUS SCRIPT : SOURCE THE INDIAN EXPRESS DRAVIDIAN, SANSKRIT OR NOT A LANGUAGE AT ALL ? Bahata ansumali mukhopadhyay , who has been researching the indus script since 2014 , contends that each indus sign represented a specific meaning, and the script was used mainly for commercial purposes She argues that contrary to popular beliefs, the script was not used for religious purpose, nor did it phonetically spell out words to encode names of ancient vedic or tamil deities Example of indus signs compiled by bahata mukhopadhyay commodity based tax names ? ancient taxes were often named after the taxed commodities or the commodities uesd as tax-paying modes (e.g., tax names based on food grains, such as sanskrit dhanya-varga or tamil puravu - nel ) animal - based emblems of the issuers of the seals such as trade / merchant guilds and region -based rulers /ruling bodies who collaboratively controlled the commerce of indus settlements? did this plant -like sign encode
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