Why are the Pancha Pandava Rathas or the Five Rathas at Mamallapuram named after the Pandavas from the Mahabharata? Why were these huge monolithic structures built and why were they left incomplete?

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1. Krishna and Arjun on the chariot, Mahabharata, 18th-19th century, India
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2. The Pandavas and Draupadi, by Ravi Varma Press, c.1910
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