A perception in which we have no knowledge of an object characterised by a predicate, but only an apprehension of some unrelated elements, is called

Such a perception is called indeterminate, nirvikalpa, perception.

In it the object is apprehended without being tied to a predicate or name.

The bare elements, the thing and its features, are grasped as unrelated.

No judgment of the form "this is such and such" has yet arisen.

Only later does determinate, savikalpa, perception relate them into a qualified object.