Double Harmonic Major vs. Panthu Varaali

Both of these start on C, and both carry the same pair of flattened notes that give Double Harmonic Major its double augmented-second color: a flat second and a flat sixth around a major third and seventh.

The wheel makes the difference positional rather than verbal: the fourth-degree wedge sits one wedge further clockwise in Panthu Varaali, and the spoke drawn from the center recolors to the interval that degree now forms with the tonic. Everything else on the two wheels is identical.

That single degree adds a third tight interval to a scale that already has two: alongside the flat-second-to-third gap and the flat-sixth-to-seventh gap, Panthu Varaali opens a third one between the raised fourth and the fifth. Reading it is one thing; the difference is much more obvious held under a drone, which is what the links under each figure are for.