Tiyyannūr Mana belongs to the Śukapuram grāma. The family customarily possesses the right to perform Vedic śrauta rituals as Agnihotra (fire oblation). Nowadays however, despite not being a Tantra family, Tiyyannūr Mana members are appointed as Tantrins in many temples.

Paṭiññāṯṯaṭṭŭ Mana is the former owner of the collection. Just as in the case of Tiyyannūr Mana, Paṭiññāṯṯaṭṭŭ Mana members are traditionally the practitioners of the Vedic śrauta rituals as Agnihotra. The manuscripts were handed to Tiyyannūr family in 2020.

DiPiKA is a collaboration between the Vadakke Madham Brahmaswam (Vedic Research Centre) in Thrissur, the École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO, Paris and Pondicherry), the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML, Collegeville, Minnesota), and the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC), University of Hamburg. The project is funded by Arcadia for a period of five years. The project aims at preserving the rich and highly endangered written cultural heritage of Kerala. It surveys and digitizes palm-leaf and paper manuscripts kept in private collections across the state. The digitized collections will be fed into a digital repository, thus forming an online archive of Kerala manuscripts that will be openly accessible. This will facilitate its use by scholars and private owners, thereby also fostering further local initiatives to safeguard historical written artifacts.