<P> Traditionally, letters were sent and telephone calls made to friends and relatives asking their forgiveness . </P> <P> The phrase michchāmi dukkaḍaṃ is also found in the Airyapathiki Sutra . It literally means--may all the evil that has been done be fruitless, and comes from the Prakrit language, a middle Indo - Aryan language, closely linked with Pali and used abundantly in the Prakrit canon of Jainism . The Sanskrit version (chayā) of the phrase is mithyā me duṣkṛitām meaning "may the evil of it be in vain". or simply put "May my misdeeds be undone ." mithyā refers to' being fruitless' or' getting absolved of' . me refers to' my '. duṣkṛitām refers to' bad deeds' . </P>

What to say in return of michhami dukkadam