Togalu Gombeyatta
- State: Karnataka
- Features
- These puppets are mostly small in size.
- The puppets however differ in size according to their social status
Tholu Bommalata
- State: Andhra Pradesh
- Features
- The puppets are large in size and have jointed waist, shoulders, elbows and knees.
- They are coloured on both sides.
- Theme of the puppet plays are drawn from the Ramayana, Mahabharata and Puranas.
Ravanachhaya
- State: Odisha
- Features
- The puppets are in one piece and have no joints.
- They are not coloured
- Apart from human and animal characters are presented
