"Like all Dravidian scholars, I too began with Father Heras. Father Heras was a Spanish Jesuit priest who worked in India and was a celebrated Professor of History in Bombay.
"It was his brilliant idea that the fish sign in the Indus script represented the word for fish in all the Dravidian languages, which is 'min,' and he pointed out that the word 'min' also represented a star or planet in all the Dravidian languages. He said that perhaps the Harappans used the fish sign to represent a star or a planet."
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