According to Katha-Upaniṣad Yama granted three boons to Naciketas. Naciketas did not ask the following boon :
Naciketas should live as many years as he chooses and attain heaven after death
In the Kaṭha Upaniṣad, Naciketas waits three nights at the house of Yama without food, and Yama offers him three boons in return.
For the first boon Naciketas asks that his father Gautama (Vājaśravas) be calm and free of anger towards him when he returns. For the second he asks to know the fire-sacrifice that leads to heaven, which Yama teaches and names the Nāciketa fire. For the third he asks whether a man exists after death or not.
Long life, wealth and pleasures are not something Naciketas asks for; Yama offers them only as temptations to turn him away from the third question, and Naciketas rejects them. The pleasing of Gautama, the heaven-gaining fire and the question about the soul after death are exactly the three boons he did ask.
Naciketas should live as many years as he chooses and attain heaven after death option is correct.
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