Michhami Dukkadam Card Maker: English, Hindi and Gujarati

Michhami Dukkadam is said on Samvatsari and, by Digambara Jains, at Kshamavani, and most people now send it as a message. This tool makes a plain card for that message, in English, Hindi or Gujarati. It draws the card in your browser, in the square size most chats use or the tall size of a phone status, and you save it to your own device. Nothing you type is sent anywhere.

How it works

The words. The card uses only words our pages give, copied exactly. From our page on what Michhami Dukkadam means: the phrase as it is written in Hindi Devanagari (मिच्छामि दुक्कड़म्) and in Gujarati (મિચ્છામિ દુક્કડમ્), its meaning in English, “May my misdeed be fruitless.”, and the verse recited at Samvatsari, khamemi savva-jive, in Devanagari with its English rendering: “I forgive all living beings. May all living beings forgive me. I have friendship with all beings. I have enmity towards none.” From our Kshamavani page: Uttam Kshama, the Digambara greeting of the day, and “Kshama is forgiveness.”

The Gujarati verse. Our pages print the verse in Devanagari. On the Gujarati card the same verse is written in Gujarati script letter for letter: each Devanagari letter becomes the Gujarati letter that stands in the same place in the two alphabets, and the danda is kept. Turned back into Devanagari, it gives the verse on our page exactly. The words are Prakrit in both scripts; only the letters change.

Your words. Your name and a line of your own are drawn exactly as you type them, in any of the three scripts. The name is remembered in this browser so it is there next year. While you confirm your email the first time, the form is kept in this browser for at most one day; nothing else is kept.

Reading the result

The card appears under the form with three buttons. “Save the card” saves it as a PNG image. On a phone that can share files, “Share the card” opens the phone’s own share sheet. “Copy the words” copies the text of the card, for a message without an image. Choose the colours and the size before you make the card; make it again to change anything.

Where traditions differ

• The greeting. Michhami Dukkadam belongs originally to the Shvetambara pratikraman, and our Kshamavani page notes that it is widely used by Digambara Jains too. Uttam Kshama is the Digambara greeting of Kshamavani. The tool offers Uttam Kshama on the English card only, because our pages give it in English letters only.
• The spelling. Our Michhami Dukkadam page sets out the forms in use, the canonical मिच्छा मि दुक्कडं, the Hindi मिच्छामि दुक्कड़म्, the Gujarati મિચ્છામિ દુક્કડમ્, and says none of them is wrong. The card uses the Hindi and Gujarati forms of that page.
• The day. Shvetambara sanghs say it on Samvatsari and Digambara Jains at Kshamavani, on different days. The card carries no date, so it serves both. Our Paryushan and Samvatsari tool gives both days for your city.

What it does not do

It does not send anything for you, and it draws no picture of a Tirthankara or a deity. It does not write a message in your name beyond the words above. Our Michhami Dukkadam page is plain that a forwarded image does not name anything: the practice asks for a specific wrong, said to a specific person, and the person you least want to message is the one the day is for. The card is the easy end of that. The page also offers a few forms of words for writing to one person.

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