The most solemn pratikramana falls during Paryushana (or, among the Digambara Jains, Das Lakshana), the chief annual festival of self-purification, culminating on its final day in Samvatsari, the yearly rite of universal forgiveness. On that day Jains everywhere perform the great pratikramana and utter the phrase Micchami Dukkadam, roughly, "may all the wrong I have done be as nothing", to family, friends, acquaintances and strangers alike, seeking pardon for any hurt caused over the past year and freely extending it to others. The custom reaches beyond the immediate community, with letters and messages of forgiveness exchanged across distances, so that the year's accumulated grievances are deliberately set down.
This annual clearing of the moral ledger gives concrete social form to the Jain conviction that enmity and the harm it breeds bind the soul, and that forgiveness, both sought and granted, is a discipline essential to liberation. Pratikramana thus unites the private examination of conscience with a communal ethic of reconciliation, and stands among the practices by which Jainism translates its rigorous doctrine of non-violence into the texture of everyday life.