The Sanskrit word "kārayitum"

From: KHANH TRONG HUYNH
Message: 4338
Date: 2015-06-04

Dear all,

This below passage is extracted from Hitopadesha:

Rājā uvāca
Bho bhoḥ paṇḍitāḥ
Śrūyatām mama vacanam
Asti kaścid evambhūtaḥ vidvān
Yaḥ mama putrāṇām idānīm
Nīti-śāstra-upadeśena
Punarjanma kārayitum samarthaḥ

My textbook translate the last sentence as:  "able to cause the second birth".  It's clearly that Punrjanma mean "second birth", and samartha mean "able", so kārayitum must be "to cause" - for its ending "tum", but I can not look up that word from any dictionary to know its root and kind of its grammatical.  Beside, for punarjanma - it dropped the ending, so it seems that it must be combined with kārayitum to form:  Punarjanmakārayitum in the original text?

Please kindly give a hand

Sincerely yours,

Huynh Trong Khanh


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