Michchhami Dukkadam – Jain Paryushan Parva 2010

Michchhami Dukkadam or Michhami Dukkadam – Jain Paryushan Parva 2010. On this auspicious occasion of Paryushan Parv we wish you all Michami Dukadam! Paryusan is a festival of fasts and spiritual awareness held during the last 10 days of the Jain year.

This festival gives an oppurunity for asking of forgiveness from friends and relatives for both intentional and unintentional wrongs. Jain festival – ‘Paryushan Parva’ celebrated in the auspicious month ‘Bhadrapad’ (Mid-August to Mid-September) of the Hindu calendar extends from the fifth day to fourteenth day of the bright fortnight. Paryusan Parv also known as Dash Lakshan Parva is the Jain festival celebrated for self-purification and uplift of oneself. ParyushanParva 2010 dates – Paryushan begins for Digamber on September 12, 2010., and for Shwetambar begins on 4th September, 2010. It extends from the fifth day to fourteenth day of Shukla Paksha or bright fortnight of Bhadrapad maasa. Paryushan means, literally, “abiding” or “coming together”.

It is also a time when the laity take on vows of study and fasting with a spiritual intensity similar to temporary monasticism. Michchhami Dukkadam that is the end of Paryushan Parv(Shewtamber jain) & start of Dash Lakshan Parv(Digamber Jain) falls on 12th Srptember for the year 2010.