Materials:

1. Palm leaf

2. Mula karanam (Bamboo)

3. Copperplates 

4. Paper manuscripts

It holds 8500 manuscripts in various streams:

1. Medicine (Vaidya),

2. Astronomy,

3. Mathematics,

4. Kavya,

5. Drama, etc.

These granthas are in:

1. Sanskrit

2. Malayalam

3. Tamil and

4. Kannada languages

Scripts:

1. Vattezhuttu

2. Grantha

3. Tamil and

4. Kannada scripts.