T. Ganapati Sastri

He was born at Taruvai in Tirunelveli District in 1860 A.D[3] While touring Kerala searching for Sanskrit manuscripts, he came across a palm-leaf codex in Malayalam in a village near Trivandrum.

Although they carried no name, he deduced based on internal evidence that they were by the same author, and concluded that they were the lost plays of Bhasa.

[1] This produced a sensation in the scholarly world,[2] and Ganapati Sastri's work was widely applauded.

[4] This has been considered "the most important event in the twentieth century Sanskrit literary scholarship".

[8] Sastri, was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by University of Tübingen, Germany for his edition of Bhasa plays.