Yogananda claimed to have met him and was supposedly one of his disciples. Ashwatthama, the superhero of the Mahabharatha, is said to be over 6,000 years old and still alive. Ancient extreme longevity claims These include claims prior to approximately 150 AD, before the fall of the Roman empire. China Fu Xi (伏羲) was supposed to have lived for 197 years. Lucian wrote about the "Seres" (a Chinese people), claiming they lived for over 300 years. Zuo Ci who lived during the Three Kingdoms Period was said to have lived for 300 years. In Chinese legend, Peng Zu was believed to have lived for over 800 years during the Yin Dynasty (殷朝, 16th to 11th centuries BC). Emperors The Yellow Emperor was said to have lived for 113 years. Emperor Yao was said to have lived for 118 years. Emperor Shun was said to have lived for 110 years. Egypt The Egyptian historian Manetho, drawing upon earlier sources, begins his Egyptian king list with the Graeco-Egyptian god Hephaestus (Ptah) who "was king for 9,000 years". Greece A book Macrobii ("Long-Livers") is a work devoted to longevity. It was attributed to the ancient Greek author Lucian, although it is now accepted that he could not have written it. Most examples given in it are lifespans of 80 to 100 years, but some are much longer: Tiresias, the blind seer of Thebes, over 600 years. Nestor, over 300 years. Members of the "Seres" (a Chinese people), over 300 years. According to one tradition, Epimenides of Crete (7th, 6th centuries BC) lived nearly 300 years. Japan Some early emperors of Japan are said to have ruled for more than a century, according to the tradition documented in the Kojiki, viz., Emperor Jimmu and Emperor Kōan. Emperor Jimmu (traditionally, 13 February 711 BC – 11 March 585 BC) lived 126 years according to the Kojiki. These dates correspond to , on the proleptic Julian and Gregorian calendars. However, the form of his posthumous name suggests that it was invented in the reign of Kanmu (781–806), or possibly during the time in which legends about the origins of the Yamato dynasty were compiled into the Kojiki. Emperor Kōan, according to Nihon Shoki, lived 137 years (from 427 BC to 291 BC). Korea Dangun, the first ruler of Korea, is said to have been born in 2333 BCE and to have died in 425 BCE at