Nilambur Plates of Ravivarman is copper plate record discovered from Nilambur in northern Kerala, southern India. The Sanskrit inscription is dated to the fifth regnal year Ravivarman, the Kadamba ruler of Banavasi. The benefaction, issued from Banavasi, made a grant of two settlements in the "Mogalur Country" to a Brahmin scholar named "Govinda Swami". 
Script and language.
The plates were stumbled on by an individual from the indigenous Kurumba community while he was washing for gold on the banks of the Chaliyar stream (at location called "Gramam Kadavu", near Nilambur). When the plates were discovered, it was found with a ring (with an engraved seal). 
Content.
The inscription is dated to the fifth regnal year of the "Dharmamaharaja" Ravivarman of the Kadamba royal family. 
While at the city of Vaijayanti (identifiable with Banavasi), Kadamba king Ravivarman made a grant [on the full-moon tithi of the month of Karttika] of two settlements ("palli") named "Multagi" and "Malkavu" to a Brahmin named Govinda Swami of the Kasyapa gotra [who had mastered the Yajurveda]. The two hamlets "Multagi" and "Malkavu" were situated on the east of the village named Kirupasani in the Mogalur Country ("vishaya").