Significance of prohibitions during period::; Normally a mother never has a day off, she is available  to attend to her family 24 hours a day every day. So the custom arose to give the women a holiday of three to four days a month in which they could rest and recoup their energy and be served hand and foot!.... And we all know about the secretion of blood, pus, vomit, faeces, urine, sperm and what not, which is defiling