vaisya vs varna

vaisya and varna both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
vaisya	Yes	No	No	No
varna	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, varna is a hypernym of vaisya; that is, varna is a word with a broader meaning than vaisya:

vaisya: the third of the four varnas: the commoners or yeoman farmers or mercantile and professional category
varna: (Hinduism) the name for the original social division of Vedic people into four groups (which are subdivided into thousands of jatis)

vaisya (noun)	varna (noun)
the third of the four varnas: the commoners or yeoman farmers or mercantile and professional category	(Hinduism) the name for the original social division of Vedic people into four groups (which are subdivided into thousands of jatis)