Flipkart Puja Thali and Brass Idol Price October 2026: From Rs. 93

We read 212 listings from Flipkart's own search results on 21 October 2026 across three queries, logged out, from India, nothing purchased. 83 of them are diya listings, which we cover on a separate page and have excluded from every figure here — so what follows is computed over the remaining 129 puja thali and brass idol rows.

Twenty-two of those 129 print exactly the same stated MRP: Rs. 999. They sell for anything from Rs. 121 to Rs. 994, and the displayed discount runs from 88% down to 1%.

That is an eight-fold price spread and an 87-point badge spread on a single strike-through. Inside this column the percentage is not information — it is the price, restated.

The first two rows are near-identical listings — the same brand's Kamdhenu cow-and-calf idol at Rs. 121 and Rs. 122, both badged 88%, with review pools of 645 and 316. Different pools mean genuinely separate listings rather than one duplicated, which is ordinary and not something we criticise.

The last row is the one worth sitting with. A Rs. 994 idol set against a stated Rs. 999 prints a 1% badge — five rupees off. It is the most expensive thing in its own column and the only listing on this shelf whose strike-through tells you almost nothing, because it is almost the price. That is the more candid display, not the worse deal.

Eleven of the 22 publish no rating at all, including that Rs. 994 set and both Rs. 400 Shivam Vastu Kala idols.

The strike-through column on this shelf is far coarser than the price column. 129 listings produce 118 distinct selling prices but only 45 distinct stated MRPs, and six figures account for 64 of the 129 rows.

Every one of those six columns spans a badge range of at least 31 points. So two listings printing the same MRP can differ by a factor of eight on price, and two listings with the same badge can print MRPs five times apart. Comparing badges across columns is meaningless; comparing them inside one is circular.

No stated MRP here is being called false and no wrongdoing is alleged. A maximum retail price is a maximum a brand is entitled to set, and sellers banding to round figures like Rs. 999 and Rs. 499 is ordinary retail practice.

Brass idols cost roughly twice what thalis do — a median of Rs. 503.50 against Rs. 256 — and they carry shallower badges, 58% against 65%. They also reach much further at the top: the dearest idol in the read is Rs. 6,837 against the dearest thali's Rs. 2,499.

And the idols are the less-reviewed half. Only 25 of 72 idol listings publish any rating, against 34 of 57 thalis. Across both, 70 of 129 listings publish nothing at all, and the 59 that do have a median pool of just 74 ratings.

The deepest badge in the read, 90%, is on the cheapest thing in it — a Rs. 93 Meenakari thali. At the other end a Rs. 849 brass Lakshmi prints 10% and a Rs. 4,315 idol prints 14%, the two shallowest badges on the shelf bar one.

The two listings with real review pools are both cheap and both unremarkable on badge: a coconut breaker plate at Rs. 186 with 1,632 ratings and a 12-inch Meenakari thali at Rs. 219 with 1,390. Neither would surface in a sort by discount.