Vedist vs bookman

Vedist and bookman both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Vedist	Yes	No	No	No
bookman	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, bookman is a hypernym of Vedist; that is, bookman is a word with a broader meaning than Vedist:

Vedist: a scholar of or an authority on the Vedas
bookman: a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines

Other hypernyms of Vedist include scholar, scholarly person.

Vedist (noun)	bookman (noun)
a scholar of or an authority on the Vedas	a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines