In 1912 Mahamahopadhyaya T. Ganapati Sastri came upon 13 Sanskrit plays that were used in the Koodiyattam plays. The first discovery yielded ten complete manuscripts (Svapnavasavadattam, Pratijnayaugandharayana, Pancharatra, Charudatta, Dootaghatotkacha, Avimaraka, Balacharita, Madhyamavyayoga, Karnabhara and Urubhanga) and fragments of one.
In 1912, scholar Mahamahopadhyaya T. Ganapati Sastri found thirteen Sanskrit plays that were part of the Koodiyattam tradition. He discovered ten complete manuscripts and a fragment from one play.