Thanks to all who responded to my question, on and off list, with such alacrity.

It is a plausible hypothesis that Madhva created the verse and it was later cited as smṛti by Baladeva in his commentary on BS 2.1.35. In the 20th century it was erroneously attributed by some scholars (beginning with S.C. Vasu in 1912?) to the Bhaviṣya Purāṇa.

With best wishes,
Andrew

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On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 1:04 PM Johannes Bronkhorst <johannes.bronkhorst@unil.ch> wrote:
This verse is mentioned in Roque Mesquita’s Madhvas Zitate aus den Purāṇas und dem Mahābhārata: Eine analytische Zusammenstellung nicht identifizierbarer Quellenzitate in Madhvas Werken nebst Übersetzung und Anmerkungen (Wien 2007 p. 58) as one of many unidentifiable quotations that may have been invented by Madhva himself.

Johannes Bronkhorst

On 18 Jan 2019, at 18:55, David and Nancy Reigle via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

This verse is not in the Bhavisya-purana according to the sloka index that was added to the Nag Publisher's reprint of the Venkatesvara Steam Press edition. I checked for both lines.

Best regards,

David Reigle
Colorado, U.S.A.

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 10:30 AM Elliot Stern via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
I cannot verify this, but Demian Martins says the source is bhaviṣyapurāṇam (https://bkdemian.blogspot.com/2010/10/karma.html):

punya-papadikam visnuh karayet purva-karmana
anaditvat karmanas ca na virodhah kathancana
(Bhavisya Purana, quoted in the Govinda-bhasya, 2.1.35)


Elliot


On Jan 18, 2019, at 11:41 AM, Andrew Nicholson via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Dear Colleagues,

The following verse appears in Madhva's and Baladeva's commentaries on the Brahmasūtra. I suspect it appears in one or more Purāṇas:

puṇyapāpādikaṃ viṣṇuḥ kārayet pūrvakarmaṇā /
anāditvāt karmaṇaś ca na virodhaḥ kathañcana //

Please do let me know where you found this if you have run across this śloka in a smṛti text somewhere.

All the best,
Andrew


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