the mandakranta metre reveals the same type of catalexis. The first line of the Bhagavad Gita scans as follows:

:| - - - - | u - - - || u u - - | u - u - |

whereas the metre is as follows:

:| - - - - | u uu uu - || - u - - | u - - |

A similar phenomenon is also found in classical Persian. For example, the metre based on the choriamb pattern (- u u -) has a shortened form as follows (though both are not used in the same poem):
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