Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c8.s2.7

c8.s2.7

or Śaka-nṛipa-kāla—the time of the Śakas or of the Śaka kings. But eventually the word śaka came to be misunderstood as itself meaning era, and to distinguish it, was then called the Śālivāhana-śaka. A reminiscence of its origin is, however, contained in Sk 281, of 1368, which is dated in the Śātavāhana-śaka instead of the Śālivāhana-śaka. So far as I have observed, the decided use of the latter term came in with the foundation of the Vijayanagar empire in the fourteenth century. The Mysore State is spoken of in 1717 as in the Śālivāhana country (Cm 109).