SRI PERMATURA, a town of the south of India, in the province of the Carnatic, celebrated as the birth-place of Rama Anuja Acharya, the great Brahmin saint and reformer, and the founder of a sect. He preached successfully against the doctrines of the Jains and the Boodhists. Long. 80. 2. E. Lat. 12. 59. N.